AMD Athlon64 Systems -- dual-940 boards with AGP+PCI-X are still costly ...

[seth vidal]

On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 00:30, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 22:35, Robert L Cochran wrote:
> > Is anyone using the AMD Athlon64?
> 
> I was hoping I would once a "low-cost" dual-940 mainboard came out.
> 
> Heck, most dual-940 boards don't even have AGP.  Although I'm not a huge
> fan of AGP (especially since PCI-X is more stable, and just as fast),
> all the "commodity" video cards are AGP based (and virtually none are
> PCI-X).
> 
> Only a few, select dual-940 mainboards have both AGP and PCI-X are
> costly.  E.g., the Tyan S2885 "Thunder" K8W is almost $600.
> 
> I though the "holy grail" had arrived with the introduction of the Tyan
> S2875 "Tiger" K8W.  Although I haven't seen any pricing yet, I think I
> can forget about considerign it.  Why?  It's got 0 I/O capability. 
> E.g., they don't come with the AMD-8131 PCI-X I/O Hub.  So _everything_
> runs of the "meager" 32-bit, 33MHz PCI channel of the AMD-8111 --
> _including_ the GbE, SATA, etc...


After having suffered through 50 or so tyan 2460s and 2466 dual athlon
motherboards I personally hope to never see another tyan motherboard.

never a larger steaming pile of crap have I seen.

-sv