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Arima Rioworks HDAMB
First Opteron board with AGP!
http://www.amdboard.com/arima_hdamb.jpg
See it here! (http://www.amdboard.com/opteron_board_arima_hdamb.html)
TheLostSwede
9 Jun 2003, 2:27am
Excellent design i must say. Those PSU connectors is on the right place, no interfering with the hs/fan at all.
However, what is the blue thing that looks like a ide connector, but its bigger than that?
This looks like a mighty powerful board, WITH possibilitys of great mutlimedia as well. Any idea of releasedate?
That blue thing has got to be an IDE connector with the lighting screwing the perspective.
I have GOT to get myself one of these things... I think I may have just found a core for a birthday present... unless I get a valve job on the car or something...
Is that RAID then, or why are there 3 IDE connectors and no floppy connector?
primesuspect
9 Jun 2003, 3:37am
Maybe it's two floppy connectors and 1 IDE... You know, RAID 0 for floppies - next big thing...
Duh....
If you've never heard of raid0 for floppies, you are SO out of the loop.
prime, you're scaring me... did you take your meds this morning? :D
there is a floppy connector btw... below the blue ide connector...
primesuspect
9 Jun 2003, 3:41am
That's for zip drives... :rolleyes:
That board has an assload of SATA, I guess one IDE, and 2 floppies.
(RAID floppies has been done, heh.)
danball1976
9 Jun 2003, 4:12am
No, thats two standard IDE connectors. The blue IDE connector is a single channel IDE controller like one version of the HPT controller. It also has one floppy connector.
muddocktor
9 Jun 2003, 4:31am
Follow the link and read, you will find that it is indeed an IDE channel off of the Promise SATA chip.
Serial ATA
Supporting Software RAID 0, 1, 10(opt)
Promise S-ATA controller 2 S-ATA, 1 P-ATA
I think that the MSI Canterwood board has this same Promise chip on it too. It does 2 channels of SATA and 1 channel of P-ATA.
mmonnin
9 Jun 2003, 5:55am
That and everything else that has to be bought new to go with it.
CPUs, HSFs, PSU, PCI cards (not on this board but the PCI-X) and at least 2 sticks of RAM.
Omega65
9 Jun 2003, 10:42pm
Welcome to Intel Xeon price territory.
Mind you the Server Hardware costs are a small fraction of what Server Software can run.
Thats is to those (people) who actually pay for software (like most S&M forum members....:hiding: )
Omega65 said
Welcome to Intel Xeon price territory.
Mind you the Server Hardware costs are a small fraction of what Server Software can run.
Thats is to those that actually pay for software (like most S&M forum members....:hiding: )
What? :p
mmonnin
9 Jun 2003, 10:50pm
Server software is in the thousands. That along with client NOSs.
No. I'm well aware of that. We have dual Windows server 2003 licenses here at school on the networks I administrate. Plus 20 additial CALs for each of the two networks.
Omega65
10 Jun 2003, 9:56am
Thrax said
Omega65 said
Welcome to Intel Xeon price territory.
Mind you the Server Hardware costs are a small fraction of what Server Software can run.
Thats is to those (people) who actually pay for software (like most S&M forum members....:hiding: )
What? :p
heh heh heh.....
Nothing but law abiding citizens at S&M! :hiding:
I buy my software lisences, but try to use as much public code as I can :)
Only bad thing I can see on this board is the layout and AGP slot, both make rackmounting the server a little tougher. Oohhh wait, thats the part you guys _liked_ ;)
FAH_WW
12 Jun 2003, 8:35am
I've just bought an MSI board (no AGP) dual Opteron. Very easy to install, hoping for PCI-X gfx cards to come out sometime... I bet it will happen ;)
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