Which TYAN motherboard is the best one?

[BadDevil]

Hi,

I wonder which TYAN motherboard is the best, (Dual Opteron ones). A friend of mine wants to buy one to use at home but he doesnt know which one to buy?
And I heard about TYAN from him for first time, so I cant help him. Then I remember you guys at this great forum. and I thought maybe (probably) you can help us.



//BadDevil

[primesuspect]

What's he building? A server? A workstation? A gaming machine? Tyan makes fantastic server boards, but for a gaming computer I might recommend another board and perhaps going dual core instead of dual CPU. Unless he wants quad cpus by going 2x dual core opterons...

more info needed! :D

[drasnor]

I'm using a SuperMicro H8DCE in my dual Opteron desktop. Currently I believe it's the best bang/buck for Opteron workstations.

-drasnor :fold:

[Hotrodsun]

I 2nd the supermicro board, got one and love it

[Nightwolf]

All Of Them...mwahahaha!

[BadDevil]

He is going to use it like a workstation / gaming machine. Or maybe is there any other Opteron (940) motherboards thats maybe better that TYAN (not so expensive)?

[drasnor]

In order of preference:
SuperMicro H8DCE (http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=110289&Category_Code=OMB)
Tyan CrushK8-04 S2877ANRF (http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=110862&Category_Code=OMB)
Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895A2NRF (http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=110197&Category_Code=OMB)

If you don't care about PCI-E my MSI K8T Master2-FAR is going up for sale soon.

-drasnor :fold: