Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 00:32:57 03/03/04
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On March 02, 2004 at 18:15:11, Jasmine Baer wrote: Hello Mister / Miss X, I use a Xeon 2.8 / 533 dual system with a Tyan Board (i7500R, S2735) since 2 months and 4Gb registered 266 Kingsten RAM. On the + side: - 16GB Ram possible! - newer Xeons 3.2 with Level3 Cache compatible, you can updated the board if the newer Xeon processors are not so expensive! - after 2 months a bios update is available. This solved one of my problems and now the board running perfect for me (problems with S-ATA harddisk). - This Tyan board is not expensive! - 3xnetwork on board, 2x 1000, 1x 100, very interesting for my private network and my Internet connection DSL. On the - side: - 2 PCIs only and now AGP! I have a creative professional card and a PGY PCI 64MB grafic card on this PCIs. The 8MB ATI on Board grafic card is not strong enough for my TFT. So you must give around 180-200 Dollar for this grafic card. This grafic card is fantastic. I try two other PCI grafic cards but booth of them are not compatible. You can set the onboard components on/off. - Tyan boards are system boards and the performance is OK but not the highest. I am very happy but you can not tuned the board with bios settings. All is very stabil, the bios is easy but if you search an overclocker board is Tyan not the right address. For me is stability important and my older Tyan Tiger for Pentium III 733 processors works 4 years without any problems. I am working in IT buiseness and create daily different system for customers, know a lot of constellation but I would buy every time a Tyan Board for my hobby. - The raid system is good but I saw better systems. - You can used only registered RAM. This are the double costs for as the normaly RAM. Crosair and Kingsten are the best RAMs for this board. Maybe the Crosair are faster but the Kingsten are more stabil. So I used Kingsten. All in one is the Tyan board for me the number one for Xeon processors. Compatibility is very good, Bios problems are solved. I know the MSI board too. This board is more interesting for overclockers :-) The software is good (System Monitor from Tyan, Tyan Board-Software, is good to and compatible since 2-3 weeks, can be donwload on Tyan webpage). But the compatiblity from Tyan is better. I like MSI boards too, very good boards but Tyan is the ... VOLVO ... under the dual mainboards. Good luck with your new Xeon Dual system! If you have more questions, you can contact me (is my professional job). Best Frank >I am interested in building a Dual Xeon workstation as my main PC for home use. >I know it is probably overkill, but the prices of these processors has come down >so much that I may as well build a Dual Xeon - I estimate it will only cost me >about $500 - $700 more than building a single P4 system. > >I am interested in the Intel Xeon DP 2.4 GHz with the 512 MB Cache. These are >currently available online for $236 each. > >What I would like advice on is a good motherboard to support these processors. >I am hoping to spend $300 or less on a Mobo, and I'd like to get some feedback >from those of you out there with more experience with these things than I. > >I've looked at the Tyan Tiger i7505 and the MSI E7505. > >Also, if anyone has some configurations for Dual Xeon workstations that they >have built that I could copy myself for under $1,500, I'd love to see them. > >Any of you AMD-lovers out there can feel welcome to share configs you have built >for Opterons or Atholon MPs. I am biased towards Intel, but if a case can be >made, I wouldn't have any problems going with AMD. > >I'm relatively new to this stuff, having only built my own P4 2.8 GHz over the >Christmas season, so I am a little apprehensive about buying the "wrong" >equipment. I was able to find so many reviews for the stuff I put into my P4, >that I felt really comfortable buying the hardware. It is a lot harder for me >to find reviews on some of the motherboards that I am looking at. So, if anyone >has a good source, I'd appreciate that, too. > >Thanks for your patience. > >-erik > >BTW, I've tried to go in and change my profile to reflect my real name, but it >doesn't seem to work. Any suggestions? > >I always use a pseudonym when I first check out an online user's group, forum, >etc. until I get a feel for the kind of place it is. This forum is very, very >respectable, so I figure using my real name will be OK. Just in case anyone was >wondering.
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