Author: Joshua Lee
Date: 11:44:38 09/03/01
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It sounds like many different people having amd and intel have had problems so the question is What setup do you go for which is both fast and Solid? Seeing how both AMD and Intel have not-so-common Power supply's and the heat generated creats most of the problems, What are the options? The industry creats things on different motherboards that are supposed to be brand new technology , this stuff is supposed to be so new and so great that you should go right out and buy it. Audio Modem Riser for example, you probably have this on a sigle cpu system board but where are the parts to use this slot??? The Motherboard makers are trying to give forward and backward compatability and this is a huge part of the problem. Tyan or whoever else will venture to make dual athlons should've only used DDR chipsets (the P4 has one already Socket 478) they should be using SCSI or if there is somthing better ... The power supply 460w is this supposed to be what all computers from now on will use? when Athlons first came out 300 was what was reccomended so for 2 hard drives, a cr-rom drive, dvd, cdrw,video card, cpu, modem, floppy, and sound card this is 10w each (which is not accurate as some cpus use 30w)so i can see needing to use over 300 but why 460? Maybe someone can give me the run down of how much each component uses in their dual system. The Itaniums are much worse and one thing i don't understand is why run at 100Mhz FSB when you have things like DDR out? I looked at the spec results for this and other machines and this one beats out even the 8-way P3 Xeons i think in all but 3 or 4 tests. There are other options like beowolf but they are more expensive than the dual systems .
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