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Posted by michael (17% noise) View
Psionicist writes “IWILL has announced a new barebone, the IWILL ZMAXdp. Based on the nVIDIA nForce3 Pro 250Gb chipset, the computer offers dual Opteron support in a SFF format. “Volume production is planned in September, with a suggested price of $499. IWILL plans to get attention in workstation market. ZMAXdp will include proprietary form factor motherboard, 300W power supply, up to 2x3.5” HDD bay, and 1xAGP; PCI and SI can offer various configurations for workstation market demand.” according to IWILL’s homepage. I will take one, please.”
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Re:dual Athlon FX - by ruiner5000 (Score: 3, Informative) Thread
Up until now the Athlon 64 FX and Opteron are identical. That will change eventually. No, the Athlon 64 FX is not SMP capable. It just has the clock multiplier unlocked.
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Re:1xAGP - workstation?! - by ruiner5000 (Score: 4, Interesting) Thread
That’s funny because it shows 4 DIMMs, which presently means you could put 8GB of memory, 4GB if there end up to be only two in the final design. Yeah, also you can put an AGP 8X Radeon X800. Or even a FireGL. Aren’t those fast video cards? Wait, there is more. RAID, in fact two Raptors in RAID 0 sounds good to me thanks to two hard drive bays. Not to mention the driver level Firewall and enhanced remote management capabilities of the nForcer 3 250 Gigabit ethernet. Yeah, come to think of it who would want that in a workstation. I mean you could put in two 2.4GHz Opteron 250s. That is over kill. Heck, for that kind of money you could buy half of a PowerMac G5 dual 2.0GHz box. And the cool thing about the PowerMac is that it is three times larger!!!! Sweet!!!
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Re:1xAGP - workstation?! - by coene (Score: 3, Informative) Thread
I’m sure that meant 1xAGP as “one AGP slot”. Not having AGP 8X would be suicide. It should even have PCI Express if it’s going to take a few months to be released.
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Re:UMMMMM… - by ruiner5000 (Score: 5, Informative) Thread
Because there are two Opterons in it. I was talking to Iwill about it today. Yes, single chip solution as in the nForce 3 chipset, as is common knowledge, integrates northbridge and southbridge functions into one chip which reduces latency, and improves performance. Single chipset, two CPUs, less valuable PCB space since no separate southbridge is required, less traces required, easier to make a smaller design. nforce 3 info.
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Heat management? - by Radi-0-head (Score: 4, Insightful) Thread
I’m extremely curious how they figured out how to manage the heat generated by TWO processors while leaving room in that tiny box for anything else.
Regardless, my boxers are wet. Must have one.
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