fc1_x86_64 preview on tyan thunder k8w (S2885ANRF REV .03)

Joshua Baker-LePain jlb17 at duke.edu
Fri Dec 12 15:20:37 UTC 2003


On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 at 9:11am, Thomas Dodd wrote

> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:       3688032    3258792     429240          0     105380    2519000
> > -/+ buffers/cache:     634412    3053620
> > 
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:       4012172    3476620     535552          0      67296    2975540
> > -/+ buffers/cache:     433784    3578388
> > 
> > The first system is dual Athlon MPs on a Tyan S2466.  The second is
> > dual Xeons on a Supermicro P4DPE.  For good measure, here's free from a 
> 
> Which chipsets are those? Not familiar with the individual boards, 
> especially not ones for Intel CPUs.

The Tyan uses the AMD 760-MPX, and the Supermicro uses the Intel E7500.

> > dual Opteron system with 8GB installed:
> > 
> >              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
> > Mem:       8070688     444488    7626200          0      99488     148820
> > -/+ buffers/cache:     196180    7874508
> > 
> > That's the Arima/Rioworks HDAMA motherboard.  Given my past experiences 
> > with Tyan and AMD chipsets (read: S2460 *shudder*), I specifically 
> > requested that my vendor *not* use the Tyan MB in my Opteron systems.
> 
> So what chipset does that board use? I though all the early K8 boards 
> used AMD chipsets. Anyone no more about the other K8 boards?
> Especially workstation boards (dual opteron with AGP).

Yes, it uses the AMD chipset.  They also have the HDAMB, which is a 
workstation board:

http://www.rioworks.com/HDAMB.htm

-- 
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University





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