Opteron motherboards

TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
edited July 2003 in Hardware
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

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  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    Oops. I found the msi now at newegg. God I want one badddddd.

    Tex
  • CCWCCW Suffolk, UK
    edited July 2003
    Asus have one out next week apparently.

    Craig
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    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
  • CCWCCW Suffolk, UK
    edited July 2003
    This part of your I must have the most hard-drive bandwidth in the world scheme? hehe
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    These raid controllers suck in a 32bit slot.

    Tex
  • AranyicAranyic Casstown, OH Icrontian
    edited July 2003
    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.
  • danball1976danball1976 Wichita Falls, TX
    edited July 2003
    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&gt;

    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
  • ShivianShivian Australia
    edited July 2003
    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?
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    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
  • AgeekAgeek
    edited July 2003
    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... :)
  • ShivianShivian Australia
    edited July 2003
    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.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited July 2003
    It was an afterthough and one that wouldn't effect most folks
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