ARIMA Opteron board; AGP!

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited June 2003 in Hardware
Arima Rioworks HDAMB
First Opteron board with AGP!

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See it here!

Comments

  • TheLostSwedeTheLostSwede Trondheim, Norway Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    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?
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    That blue thing has got to be an IDE connector with the lighting screwing the perspective.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2003
    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...
  • dodododo Landisville, PA
    edited June 2003
    Is that RAID then, or why are there 3 IDE connectors and no floppy connector?
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    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.
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2003
    prime, you're scaring me... did you take your meds this morning? :D
  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited June 2003
    there is a floppy connector btw... below the blue ide connector...
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    That's for zip drives... :rolleyes:
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    That board has an assload of SATA, I guess one IDE, and 2 floppies.

    (RAID floppies has been done, heh.)
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited June 2003
    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.
  • muddocktormuddocktor
    edited June 2003
    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.
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited June 2003
    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.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited June 2003
    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: )
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    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
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited June 2003
    Server software is in the thousands. That along with client NOSs.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited June 2003
    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.
  • Omega65Omega65 Philadelphia, Pa
    edited June 2003
    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:
  • RobRob Detroit, MI
    edited June 2003
    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_WWFAH_WW Training in Indianapolis, IN
    edited June 2003
    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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