POLL: Best dual-cpu AMD board?

[Taylor]

In your own opinion, please list the best and why. And if you think Intel does it better. And why.

-Taylor

 

[SickBoy]

No retail dual-CPU AMD board exists right now, bro. AMD has the 760MP chipset soon to be released (along side the dual-capable Palomino) which will support SMP and DDR. I saw some CeBit pics of a Tyan mobo running a dual Palo system, but it's still off on the horizon. Until then, us AMD people can only dream....

SickBoy

 

[Taylor]

SickBoy (Apr 09, 2001 04:06 p.m.):
No retail dual-CPU AMD board exists right now, bro. AMD has the 760MP chipset soon to be released (along side the dual-capable Palomino) which will support SMP and DDR. I saw some CeBit pics of a Tyan mobo running a dual Palo system, but it's still off on the horizon. Until then, us AMD people can only dream....

SickBoy

I thought I saw a dual cpu board at Iwill's website, and a couple more at Asus. Must've been hallucinating. (Thermal grease fumes...)

 

[SickBoy]

Even if you had seen a dual AMD board, you can buy it and do all you want with it but you'd only be able to run 1 Tbird or 1 Duron in it as the current socket A processors are not SMP capable. (at least not according to AMD). I may have missed the introduction of SMP socket A boards (not likely) but I know that until we see Palomino, there's no AMD SMP until then

SickBoy

 

[Kriegster]

yeah no dual athlon boards yet. tyan and msi will probably be the first 2 at the end of the summer if we are lucky. I had a tyan board once which I didn't particularly care for so the MSI will probably be the 1 I would shoot for. There was an add for someplace taking pre-orders but that was in china and we all know the crap china pulls The Msi board (and the tyan too perhaps) will probably come with onboard scsi and some other goodies, and probably cost an arm and a leg