K8T800 Chipset board announced (Dual Opteron)

Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own wayNaples, FL Icrontian
edited August 2003 in Hardware
Micro-Star International and Via Technologies annonced availability of a Via KT800 chipset based MS-9130 Dual Opteron server and workstation board in the last couple days (I got an email on the 20th saying "today is announce date.").

The article is on digitimes.com, link:

http://www.digitimes.com/NewsShow/Article.asp?datePublish=2003/08/15&pages=PR&seq=207


Essentially, it is this:

KT800 chipset, VT8237 South Bridge.
AGP8 capable
Dual Opteron support
Configurable SATA\RAID, modes 0 and 1
Up to 8GB RAM, DDR333
4 PCI, one AGP slot
2 channel ATA\133 IDE
2 SATA ports
Typical floppy socket
4 USB ports
ATX Format.

Comments

  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited August 2003
    MSI Dual Opteron Motherboard pic here

    MSI Athlon64 (VIA K8T800) Motherboard Pic here

    **edit**
    KTxxx Chipset are Athlon (32bit) Chipsets

    K8Txxx Chipsets are Opteron/Athlon64 (64bit) Chipsets
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited August 2003
    Found the Product Page! :)

    MSI K8T Master2-FAR Product Page
  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited August 2003
    Don't you think it's about time for a new north or southbridge that supports PCI-x or at least a 64/66 bus on a dual opteron board? I wouldn't even consider this as there would be noplace to put my SCSI raid set.

    Just seems knid of wasteful to me.

    Flint:banghead:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    MSI doesn't make enterprise class boards.

    They make enthusiast SMP boards.
  • FlintstoneFlintstone SE Florida
    edited August 2003
    True, but my K7D has 2. But really, i'm bitchin' about VIA. If they'd make, manufacturers would put it on a board. Not a braod enough audience, I guess.

    Flint
  • Straight_ManStraight_Man Geeky, in my own way Naples, FL Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    Lots of folks are getting antsy about PCI-X, the problem is that putting dual capability in the board is not cheap. As said, this is a Workstation\PC very high end and not an enterprise server board. It is one of the first, and I am sure that others will follow and that Tyan will come out with some server boards that are true server boards for large enterprise file servers and for very heavy calculations and large databases as well.

    This is an early entry board that can be run one Opteron or two and is a way to buy to latest Workstation tech and the designs for server boards will follow. It is an all-around, not storage optimized for 64 bit cards, but the embedded is decent for what workstation folks.

    The PATA 133\100 and SATAlite on the chipset specs at Via are run from a Via DriveStation subfunction chip right now per Via specs-- that is what full 4 device RAID 0, 1 or 0+1 will be like with the Southbridge used if MSI did not cripple the thing. so, yes, it probably will be 32 bit with a common linkage bus unless the SATA part has extrabandwidht and the PATA is using a 32 bit bridge and the bridge line is two bridges to pins on one seperate DriveStation or the DriveStation is bifurcated internally (possible).

    Board mfrs are only going to make support fro what is on the market and economical for their niche. Someone who wants an all in one that file serves massively should wait and buy a server board with embedded 64\66 PCI or a 64\66 embedded pipe to a full SATA embedding. But file servers are normally storage and storage I\O tuned (massive very fast HDs and full 64\66 SATA)and are not needing hyper fast graphics.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited August 2003
    Flintstone said
    True, but my K7D has 2. But really, i'm bitchin' about VIA. If they'd make, manufacturers would put it on a board. Not a braod enough audience, I guess.

    Flint

    Here you go..

    Tyan Thunder K8W
    Memory
    • 128-bit DDR memory bus
    • Eight 184-pin 2.5-Volt DDR DIMM sockets
    - Four per CPU
    • Supports up to 16GB of Registered DDR
    • Supports ECC type memory modules
    • Supports PC2700, PC2100, & PC1600 DDR

    Expansion Slots (Total of six usable slots)
    • One 8X AGP / AGP 8X Pro110W slot
    • Two independent 64-bit PCI-X buses
    - Two 100/66/33MHz PCI-X slots (PCI-X A)
    - Two 133/100/66/33MHz PCI-X slots (PCI-X B)
    • One legacy 32-bit 33MHz (5-Volt) PCI slot
  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited August 2003
    That´s the board to have Omega, what does it goes for? $1000?
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited August 2003
    My Guess is $300-400. No onboard SCSI so it shouldn't be in the $500+ range.....
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