Re: motherboard comparison
"Bryan J. Smith" <[email protected]> Tue, 24 Jan 2006 11:30:21 -0800 (PST)
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"Chiu, PCM (Peter)" <[email protected]> wrote: > Does anyone has any experience with Tyan S2882-D and S2891 > motherboards in their support with Suse 10/9.x with Dual > Opteron 254 cpus? > In particular, we would like to know if there is any > significant performance difference between these two with > 4x2GB DDR400MHz memory. Depending on the model of the older S288x, the BIOS/APIC registers might only support 166MHz DDR (DDR333/PC2700) synchronous clock for the memory, even though the CPUs support 200MHz DDR (DDR400/PC3200). Haven't checked BIOS updates on that because I haven't had really any of those boards, although you'll probably want it for the dual-core CPU support (if there is one available). The newer S289x were clearly designed with 200MHz DDR (DDR400/PC3200) in mind, as well as dual-core processors. BTW, the memory capabilities have _nothing_ to do with the HyperTransport chips used for I/O. I.e., the 288x is AMD8151, AMD8131 and/or AMD8111 combinations. The 289x is nForce Pro 2200, nForce Pro 2050 and/or AMD8131 combinations. Those have to do with I/O and peripherals. -- Bryan J. Smith Professional, Technical Annoyance [email protected] http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------- *** Speed doesn't kill, difference in speed does *** -- amd64-list mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/amd64-list