From: Peter Farrow peter@farrows.org

I had trouble with Tyan boards and BIOS revisions not getting Processor numbers and speeds correct. We also had early life failures with Asus boards, and since switched to MSI, we now use the MSI 9161 K8D Master 3 http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=560 without any problems..

Ack, no block diagram in MSI's manual.

It's an AMD8131+AMD8111, no HyperTransport tunnel for any video channels. So you can probably assume AMD8111 bridge attached to AMD8131 tunnel to CPU #0. Since there is only one high-speed tunnel, you really can't get more optimal than adding another HT tunnel chip.

I guess I'm just looking for the "holy grail" in (2) AMD813x's on a 2-way board.

-- Bryan J. Smith mailto:b.j.smith@ieee.org