Any issues with MSI K8T-NEO-FIS2R?

[Mark Reis]

As long as everyone is putting in their 2c, I would give a word of caution
about Tyan. This comes from two recent bad experiences with their
motherboards. 1) We have >20 machines in a cluster all running dual Athlon
MPs and they started out with 4GB of ECC ram. To make along story short,
there was absolutely no way to make these machines stable with 4 sticks of
memory. We had to sell back, at a lost, the extra 1GB DIMMS. 2) Bad RMA
support. Another Tyan dual proc board, in a different system, failed within
the warranty period from Tyan. Trying to RMA the board was a Herculean
effort and did not go well. We've had respectable luck our MSI Opteron
boards K8D Master FTs.

-Mark Reis
UVa CS Department

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Subject: Re: Any issues with MSI K8T-NEO-FIS2R?

On February 26, 2004 10:03 pm, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Thursday 26 February 2004 20:46, Ashley Gittins wrote:
> > If there are good reasons why I should look at another board, or another
> > chipset altogether, I'd love to hear them. I'll be using Fedora for my
> > day-to-day work (general desktop stuff, some devel, graphics) and will
> > be dual-booting with XP purely for games.
> >
> > I don't expect a completely smoth ride on AMD64, but I wouldn't mind
> > being able to start out with something proven, and sit back on the bit
> > where the bleeding edge has just started to congeal :-)

We have sold one and haven't heard any complaints but personally I would
look 
at getting a Tyan S2875S instead. It takes the S940 Opteron 14x series or 
Athlon64 FX processors. It comes with AC97 sound that works under linux, 
GigE, SIL3114 4 Port SATA RAID (Much better than promise and linux support 
now exists). It uses an AMD chipset which is well supported. The only 
complaint we have is that you need to remove the audio connectors to fit it 
in a 1U case.


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