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Originally posted by Tyranny]SiN[:
Intel rules! Never did like AMD. Had that K6-3 and the Athlon... had nothing but grief when trying to run a myraid of different applications. Its like the chips would skip code instruction and then just die.
Intel, Gigabyte mobos, and corsair ram. can't go wrong with the 8iH* combination mobos.
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I never recommended AMD processors up until the Athlon. The Athlon is a solid design, lacking in a few places (thermal management primarily) but affordable and a good performer. The Opteron is a VERY well designed processor, with features that normally aren't found on inexpensive (relatively) systems.
I've had mixed luck myself with Gigabyte, one board failed after 6 months or so... the second I'm still using and has worked very well. I like Mushkin DDR but at the high end there's several decent vendors (no one should EVER buy the crap no-name brands... not worth it).
Here's the Opteron box I just ordered, can't wait to see what it can do:
Poly 2020A Dual Opteron ATX MB w/8x AGP, Gigabit Lan
2 AMD Opteron Model 240 Processors (64 bit-1.8Ghz)
4 DDR333 512Meg ECC/Registered
Maxtor 60GB ATA133 7200RPM IDE Hard Disk
2 WD SATA 36G 10kRPM HDD 8M Cache
Sony DVD+RW DRU-530A
Nvidia GeForceFX 5900 Ultra 256M 8x AGP
2 NEC Multisync LCD2080UX-BK 20" LCD Displays
I'm going to drop another $12k in Matrox Vision Processing hardware into the beast and take it for a test drive... see what kind of performance I can get out of the non uniform memory architecture. Probably start with a dual boot XP64/64 bit SuSE Linux setup. I've got a SCSI Raid array with a 64bit PCI-X controller waiting in the wings if the SATA stuff isn't fast enough... but from what I've heard it should be plenty fast.