On Thursday 23 June 2005 22:18, Kirk Bocek wrote:
Bryan J. Smith wrote:
So instead of working about the latest'n greatest Opteron mainboard, see if you an find a $300 dual-Opteron mainboard with the AMD8131 that supports dual-core.
Okay, there's the challenge kiddies! Who can come up with an actual in-stock SKU that I can pay real $$$ for? I love Bryan's knowledge and information. Really, I do! But my choices *end* with the motherboards a retailer can put into my UPS driver's hands.
Bryan, I wish I could force Tyan, Asus and all the rest to make your perfect design. But I can't. I'm sorry. ;)
The board: Asus K8N-DL http://www.asus.com.tw/products.aspx?l1=9&l2=39&l3=174&model=456...
The dual core support: In bios 1004 http://support.asus.com/faq/faq.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=K8N-DL
The place to buy: ZipZoomFly.com among others - $274.99 (free shipping) http://www.zipzoomfly.com/jsp/ProductDetail.jsp?ProductCode=240430 or NewEgg $270.00 (plus shipping) http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813131059&CMP=OTC-p... both in stock :-)
Only two issues with the board - memory support is supposedly not so great and Asus themselves claims the board doesn't exist :-) Go to their webpage and go through the links - no dual opteron boards... Go to the search box, enter the name of the board and you'll get all you need though...
Peter.