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Subject: Re: Dual Athlon motherboards - ASUS x Tyan 2466 x Tyan 2460

Author: Victor Zakharov

Date: 07:32:30 01/24/02

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On January 23, 2002 at 21:55:54, Volker Richey wrote:

>On January 23, 2002 at 21:19:40, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:
>
>>Which one is the best?
>>
>>A. Ponti
>
>I had many problems with the tyan 2460!!!
>memory problems
>It needs PC2100 DDR ECC registered RAM
>
>Don't buy the 2460!!!
>
>May be the 2466 will be the best choice, but its
>from tyan, too :(
>
>I think its better to wait for a board from ASUS!!!!
>
>
>volker

Memory problem definetly exists. I just bought 2460. With fast memory that I had
before motherboard worked only until running any chess engine. Than I tried a
few another non-registered modules and with one of them motherboard was able to
work for a few hours. But failures were stable. Yersterday I finaly found normal
registered DDR modules and computer works stable from this moment, almost stable
- one hanging had place, but possibly it is another problem.

So I can't name my experience with 2460 successful.

BTW, "registered" means that memory has register that delays sendings data to
CPU for one cycle. So Tayn company was just lazy to adapt more quicker memory to
work with their board.

Victor



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