Opteron anyone?

Scott van Looy scott at ethosuk.org.uk
Sat May 5 06:27:54 UTC 2007


On May 4 Sean Bruno did spake thusly:

> On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 17:09 +0100, Scott van Looy wrote:
>> Today Geoffrey Leach did spake thusly:
>>
>>> I need to replace a MB that has dual Opteron 240s. Hard to do, because that's
>>> yesterday's t4echnology. I'd appreciate hearing about Fedora-friendly boards
>>> that use the 240. Thanks.
>>
>> I have a K8N-DL - takes 240s...seems to work fine under Fedora (tho it
>> moans about a bios issue)
>>
> I would second this motherboard.  I'm running 246's in mine with 6GB of
> RAM.
>
> The latest BIOS, 1010 seems to keep it fairly quiet.
>
> The fake raid stuff(two of 'em nVidia and Silicon Image) are kind of
> crappy and FC5/6 have had issues installing with them.

The Silicon Image one is shite and should be disabled in the bios. Not had 
a single problem with the nVidia one tho...and FC6 ;)

Sounds like you have an almost identical setup to me hehe.

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