> > >Tyan is really focused on cost. >They have an older, "cheap" 2-way Opteron mainboard that >doesn't even put DDR channels on CPU #2. > >And several manufacturers are even worse than Tyan. >Especially the non-server focused vendors. >SuperMicro and Tyan are better than most. > >But still not the quality in mainboard design you'll get >from select Tier-1 OEMs like HP and Sun. > > > So what is the bottom line? None of the common board makers such as Asus, Iwill, Tyan, Supermicro and Gigabit make a "good" board? So what should the poor server builder do?