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Dual Athlon mobos?
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CitrixEngineer
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There are rumours that Tyan are making one, but they wouldn't confirm it when I e-mailed them.
I heard of a project (but can't find the link) in which a company was making their own motherboard to support no less than 192 Athlons, but that was really a one-off.
AMD chips don't support SMP as well as Intel chips do - you'd be better off getting a dual Intel board.
However, I guess you've decided to go AMD (and I know how supportive the AMD crowd are of their chips!), so you want dual.
The best I can think of would be to cluster two machines. Linux lets you do this quite simply, and there is basic clustering built into W2k server.
I'd guess that when dual Athlon mobos do eventually hit the market, demand will be so high that the price would be fairly close to the case, mobo, RAM and disk that you'd need for your cluster.
My $0.02
I heard of a project (but can't find the link) in which a company was making their own motherboard to support no less than 192 Athlons, but that was really a one-off.
AMD chips don't support SMP as well as Intel chips do - you'd be better off getting a dual Intel board.
However, I guess you've decided to go AMD (and I know how supportive the AMD crowd are of their chips!), so you want dual.
The best I can think of would be to cluster two machines. Linux lets you do this quite simply, and there is basic clustering built into W2k server.
I'd guess that when dual Athlon mobos do eventually hit the market, demand will be so high that the price would be fairly close to the case, mobo, RAM and disk that you'd need for your cluster.
My $0.02
hi
actually tyan is making the Dual Athlon Motherboard...and it's better than a dual athlon, they did a benchmark on the linux machines...compiling the kernel...it will be using the AMD760MP chipset...which is like the AMD760 chipset but MP stands for multiple processor...it should be out by the end of this year...
-> linux compile time -> 142% faster than single cpu
you can also go to yahoo.com and do a search for dual athlon.
a few great sites to see:
the athlon can outbeat intel!
actually tyan is making the Dual Athlon Motherboard...and it's better than a dual athlon, they did a benchmark on the linux machines...compiling the kernel...it will be using the AMD760MP chipset...which is like the AMD760 chipset but MP stands for multiple processor...it should be out by the end of this year...
-> linux compile time -> 142% faster than single cpu
you can also go to yahoo.com and do a search for dual athlon.
a few great sites to see:
the athlon can outbeat intel!
CitrixEngineer
Technical User
This was also reviewed at Tomshardware
But nothing's really been announced since October 2000. I seem to remember reading on Slashdot or Ars Technica that there were issues with SMP that were yet to be resolved.
All the same - impressive results! I can't wait to play with one of these.
But nothing's really been announced since October 2000. I seem to remember reading on Slashdot or Ars Technica that there were issues with SMP that were yet to be resolved.
All the same - impressive results! I can't wait to play with one of these.
I recently built a new workstation using a Tyan "Thunder" 2462ung dual Athlon-MP motherboard. It uses 2 1.8g Athlon MP(Palomino)processors, the AMD760MP chipset, requires REGISTERED/ECC DDR ram, and can be rather finnicky about which brands to use (follow Tyans' recommended list.) So far I haven't had a bit of trouble out of it running Adobe Premier (DV editing) or Autocad 2002, even at the same time!
And as for price (CitrixEngineer,) you are right, the cost is rather prohibitive, but much less than comperable P4 based setups. However I was in need of a very stable, powerful workstation platform that would fit within my budget. I'll post an update after I have used it a while , and have a chance to see if it really does perform as well as Tyan claims.>:O>
And as for price (CitrixEngineer,) you are right, the cost is rather prohibitive, but much less than comperable P4 based setups. However I was in need of a very stable, powerful workstation platform that would fit within my budget. I'll post an update after I have used it a while , and have a chance to see if it really does perform as well as Tyan claims.>
:O>
CitrixEngineer
Technical User
How quickly things change!
Tom's did a review on 6 Intel boards,
The board mentioned is reviewed here
...among other places.
First thing I thought was how on earth do you keep that puppy cool?
I'm impressed by the integrated 10/100 LAN, ATA100 RAID AND U/W SCSI, as well as 4Gb RAM support. This would seem to justify the price, IMO. No Firewire though?
I'd be interested in your review, since I recently bought an old dual Pentium pro machine, that proceeded to leave my PIII behind, in terms of actual "feely" use - even though the benchmarks were in favour of the PIII.
Here are some comparison reviews, for anyone else considering multi-processor goodness. The benchmark graphs don't really convey the sense of speed you get from one of these, however;
Remember that Win9.x can't take advantage of SMP, so use either NT/2k/XP or Linux.
Tom's did a review on 6 Intel boards,
The board mentioned is reviewed here
...among other places.
First thing I thought was how on earth do you keep that puppy cool?
I'm impressed by the integrated 10/100 LAN, ATA100 RAID AND U/W SCSI, as well as 4Gb RAM support. This would seem to justify the price, IMO. No Firewire though?
I'd be interested in your review, since I recently bought an old dual Pentium pro machine, that proceeded to leave my PIII behind, in terms of actual "feely" use - even though the benchmarks were in favour of the PIII.
Here are some comparison reviews, for anyone else considering multi-processor goodness. The benchmark graphs don't really convey the sense of speed you get from one of these, however;
Remember that Win9.x can't take advantage of SMP, so use either NT/2k/XP or Linux.
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