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Posted by CowboyNeal (10% noise) View
CoffeeJunked writes “There’s a lot of buzz about dual-core CPUs and with the release of the nForce Professional chipset from nVidia, there’s a lot of buzz about the future of SMP machines as we know them. LinuxHardware.org has just published a couple of articles that get to the heart of the new chipset and what board manufacturers will be doing with them. The first article covers the chipsets and boards, while the second article is an interview with Tyan about what to expect from them this year. It’s a good read all around.”
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Anandtech article was quite interesting… - by Bob-o-Matic! (Score: 4, Informative) Thread
Normal view: http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx? i=2327
All in one page/“print” version: http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2327
Lots of intersting possibilities. Seems to me that given a motivated/visionary motherboard maker, the only real limits are based on the form factor. Is there a super-ATX out there that would allow for say 8 PCI-e slots, 16+ hard drives, and all the rest of the goodies, all in one case?
Some will ask if there really is a need for this. Anandtech’s Derek Wilson points out that having all the onboard disk controllers could add up to substantial savings— apparantly expansion card controllers are quite pricey.
Now, if only those Opteron 8XX processors didn’t cost $8XX… (or thereabouts… you get the idea!)
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Free Drivers - by gustgr (Score: 4, Interesting) Thread
Finally, NVIDIA’s SLI has been a hot topic here because, as of yet, we haven’t seen Linux drivers that support this hot new feature. When we talked to NVIDIA about this we were finally given a time-line which stated that it may be a couple of months still.
If the drivers were free software someone skilled enough would hack the missing features. Isn’t about time to nVidia change its mind and release the sources?
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The New Tyan Boards using the Nvidia Chipset - by rchatterjee (Score: 4, Informative) Thread
Thunder K8WE (S2895)
Thunder K8SRE (S2891)
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Talk about useless. - by Anonymous Coward (Score: 5, Insightful) Thread
So, they are designing a chipset for servers, which will run linux or bsd, but they refuse to provide docs or hardware to linux and bsd developers, meaning their shit is always poorly supported. Hooray.
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The boards look great, except… - by RebelWebmaster (Score: 4, Insightful) Thread
Where are the SATA connectors?!?!?! I find it amazing that the K8WE only has 2 and the K8SER 4. While we’re on the topic, having at least 1 PCIe x1 slot would be nice. These high end server boards are being outclassed by nForce4 SLI motherboards. (And for the record, using more than 4 SATA ports is very doable)
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