[Pc_Support] Re: Ready to Play Linux Server Recommendations?

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 22:41 -0400, Damien McKenna wrote:
> I must say that the Opteron CPUs & nForce Professional chipsets are 
> making servers pretty fun these days.

Well, just remember the nForce Pro options (2200, 2200+2050) only
give you HyperTransport tunnels to PCIe channels (20, 40), and not PCI-
X.  The lack of PCIecards (a few NICs, the MegaRAID 320-2E, not much
else) right now is going to limit options.

So until that changes, it's still ideal to get a system with one or
more AMD8131 (or AMD8132) HyperTransport tunnels to PCI-X (2/each).

All Tyan boards I've seen, including even the 4x Socket-940, put (1)
AMD8131 on CPU #0.

Most of the other 2x Socket-940 systems do the same, although the 4x
Socket-940 DL585 puts (2) AMD8131 chips, one on each of two processors,
and the SunFire V40z puts (3) AMD8131 chips, one on one processor (2 x
100MHz, 1 x 66MHz + on-board peripherals) and two on another (4 x full-
speed 133MHz slots).


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