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Dual Opteron nF4 SLI mobo... :drool:

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Man is that sexy! Anyone got a 1Gw PSU? Think I might need that...
 
This is sexier.


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I will buy one of those boards one day, my current Thunder K7 is getting a little long in the tooth.
 
^^^^^I must have one.

stops dreaming realizes hes a student and is still trying to scrape enough money together to buy one 6800gt and a64.

If I had enough cash though I would have one of those as soon as they became available.
 
must say the tyan looks good because of the 2 full 16x PCI-E slots and more expansion pertential.

edit: does any one know if the abit actualy has > 32 PCi-E chanels? whats the swich for? spliting one 16x in to two 8x?
 
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Alienware mobo is Xeons

That Tyan board, I was eyeing for a long time and found out all I could on it... but it would be like 700+ ... so instead of one part I upgraded 3 for that price.

Tyan board uses dual nforce4 chipsets, has an AMD8103 I believe, so it has SCSI controller along with SATA and IDE. I believe it technically has Dual, Dual Channel Ram, two NB along with two opterons with memory controllers
 
I don't think it'll be $700.

I have the equivalent K7 board, sans scsi, cost me $365.

I think I'm willing to pay up to the $500s for a board that was some variation of the one I linked... I'd expect it to definately last me 3-4, maybe 5 years, like my current one has.

Seeing as how the industry has hit an asymptote lately, that seems reasonable to me.
 
Any word on when either of these boards are coming out? I've been planning an A64 upgrade for sometime, even toyed with a dual opteron upgrade...still haven't did either, lol.

I'd love a dual opteron / SLI system...gaming for me, hardcore workstation for my fiance...

wow.
 
Damn, both very sexy boards! Why oh why does the gov insist on taking my $$$!!! :(
 
To pay for public goods... lots and lots of public goods, along with the salaries of the people running the government... and so on. Jeez, the apocalypse will come before a free lunch.

I still cry every so often, that I had to pass by the thought of getting than dual opteron sli tyan board ;_;
 
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I'd like one like this when someone actually puts some of these out as a dual Opteron SLI workstation.

So far I like the specs on the Iwill DK8EW (8x8 SLI Workstation) due out in March. The DK8ES (server model) due February doesn't really have SLI support as Iwill isn't going supply the SLI bridge.

Originally posted by Stormlord on 2CPU.com in the Iwill DK8ES SLI NFORCE CK8-04 DUAL OPTERON thread
DK8EW expected late february acc. to last info.

DK8EW:
- comes with 16/2 OR 8/8 lanes on the two PCIe 16x slots
- is officially SLI capable (DK8ES unofficially aswell, if you can get a bridge - the bridges are the same as with DN800-SLI, but NOT the same as Asus A8N SLI Deluxe, different distance between slots)
- has NO onboard ATI Rage XL
- has NO IPMI connector
- has firewire chip
- has 1 GbE instead of 2

Specs:

Processors:
Dual AMD Opteron Processors
Three HyperTransport Links
Each link at 1600MT/s (6.4 GB/s)
Two Socket940
Dual Digital VRM
Support Dual Core, 90nm AMD Opteron Processors

Memories:
Dual Channel DDR Memory Architecture
8 184-pin DIMM slots (4 DIMMs per CPU)
Support up to 16GB of memories (8GB per CPU)
Support DDR400 and DDR333 memories (depends on the CPU modle)
Support only Registered ECC memories
Support 128Mb, 256Mb, 512Mb, and 1Gb Technology memory.
Chip-Kill error detection and correction

Chipset:
nVIDIA nForce Professional 2200 (CK8-04)
PCI-X Bridge: AMD 8131
Super IO: Winbond W83627THF
Ethernet Controller: Broadcom BCM8721
Audio Controller: Realtek ALC655 CODEC
IEEE-1394/Firewire Controller: TI TSB43AB22A

Expansion Slots:
Two x16 PCI Express slots (option for x16 and x2 bandwidth or x8 and x8 bandwidth with SLI converter)
One PCI-X 64/133 slot
Two PCI-X 64/100 slots

LAN:
One PCI Express GbE
Broadcom BCM8721 PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet Controller
One RJ-45 connector at rear IO panel
Pin-header for Link and Active LED for front panel

Storage:
Four SATA ports for SATA drives
SATA bandwidth at 3.0Gb/s
Support RAID 0, 1, and 0+1
Support NVRAID Utility

Audio:
6 Channel AC'97 Audio
Realtek ALC655 CODEC
Pin-header for Mic_IN and Line_OUT for front panel
Connector for Rear, Center, and S/PDIF out at rear IO panel
Connector for Line_IN, Line_OUT, and Mic_IN at rear IO panel
One 4-pin CD-ROM Audio_IN pin-header

IEEE-1394/Firewire:
Two IEEE-1394/Firewire Ports
TI TSB43AB22A IEEE-1394/Firewire Controller
One IEEE-1394 connector at rear IO panel
One internal pin-header for one IEEE-1394 connector for front panel

USB:
10 USB2.0 Ports
Four USB2.0 connectors at rear IO panel
Three internal pin-header for 6 USB2.0 connectors for front panel

IO Expensions:
Two IDE connector for up to four IDE devices
Support Bus Master / Enhanced IDE
Support ATA133/100/66 devices
Support UDMA 33 devices
Support ATAPI devices
One Floppy connector for two floppy devices
One UART connector at rear panel (COM Port)
One internal UART pin-header (COM Port)
One Parallel connector at rear panel (Parallel Port, support ECP/EPP mode)
One PS/2 Keyboard connector at rear panel
One PS/2 Mouse connector at rear panel

System Management:
Hardware Monitor control by Winbond W83627THF
Two 3-pin CPU fan connector with fan speed monitor and control
Two 3-pin system fan connector with fan speed monitor and control (for rear side)
Two 3-pin system fan connector with fan speed monitor and control (for front side)
Voltage Monitor
Temperature Monitor
Chassis intrusion pin-header
Support AC Power failure
One 2x25 pin-header for optional mBMC for IPMI 1.5
a) remote power ON/OFF and Reset (IPMI over LAN)
b) system information for front panel LCD

BIOS:
AMI BIOS (8MB)
BIOS Flash Write Protection
PCI 2.0
ACPI 1.1
APM 1.2
DMI 2.0
BIOS boot Specification 1.01
WfM 2.0
Support ACPI S1 and S3

Form Factor:
Extend ATX
12" x 13"
EPS12V

Certification:
FCC/CE
AMD validated

Package Include:
1pc Motherboard
1pc SLI Bridge Connector
1pc SLI Converter
1pc Manual
1pc PowerInstaller CD
2sets Opteron Retention Module
1pc IO shield
1pc ATA133 cable
1pc Floppy cable
2 sets of SATA cables (each set contain 2pcs SATA data cable and 1pc SATA power cable)
3pcs jumper caps



Kind Regards,

David / Iwill Benelux
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