Opteron motherboards

[Tex]

Crap. Newegg is still selling just cpu's. When are the MB's gonna hit. Have you guys seen opteron boards for sale anywhere?

Tex

[Tex]

Oops. I found the msi now at newegg. God I want one badddddd.

Tex

[CCW]

Asus have one out next week apparently.

Craig

[Tex]

CCw: And the ones I want are not the ones most you guy want. I don't game so I want 64bit pci slots and don't give a crap about AGP. Most you guys would croak without agp but don't give a rats ass about 64bit pci slots.

I kust for the msi k8d...... (long sigh...............)

Tex

[CCW]

This part of your I must have the most hard-drive bandwidth in the world scheme? hehe

[Tex]

These raid controllers suck in a 32bit slot.

Tex

[Aranyic]

Originally posted by CCW
This part of your I must have the most hard-drive bandwidth in the world scheme? hehe
rofl, that had me rolling when I read it.

[danball1976]

MSI Dual Opteron Processor Server Motherboard for Towers MODEL K8D MASTER-F - RETAIL - $452.

Thats a bit much right now, its a server board at that.

NewEgg doesn't normally have images that are low quality like that.
<img src=http://images10.newegg.com/productimage/13-130-423-03.JPG>

Dan: They consider the Opteron a server chip so even the single cpu boards are considered a "server". Which is a joke in my eyes as nothing without 64bit pci slots should even remotely be considered as a server MB.

Tex

[Shivian]

Originally posted by M33PiNS
I've seen someone with that board - the little heatsink was on diagonally as well. What's the deal with that?
Yeah that looks a little crazy... surely if you removed it and fixed it on oriented differently (hesitant to say correctly in case they have a valid reason) it would be more effective?

[Tex]

Its put on that way because to make pci 2.0 or above specs you can't block the pci slots for cards that are longer. It couldn't adhere to the pure specs with it turned as the cooler would block longer cards.

If you will look closely long cards would fit within the fin spacing as its attached in the pic

Tex

[Ageek]

Note cutouts of fin areas on heatsink so longer cards can be used in the 32 bit PCI slots. At a guess, heat sinks were made before the chipwas placed skewed as someone realized traces had to be set that way. If had no longer cards that had to be in PCI 2 or 3 would reset heatsink right for chip and wrong for slots. It is also a PITA to make precise diagonal cutouts and then get the assembler to glue on exactly right.

I hate design compromises that are THAT obvious... :)

[Shivian]

Couldn't they have designed a heatsink on a 45 degree angle that had the fins cut out so that it wouldn't obstruct the PCI slots? Surely that's a trivial design consideration... looks very much like a hack job the way it stands.

[Tex]

It was an afterthough and one that wouldn't effect most folks