New Machine

[James McDonald]

Kurt Wall wrote:

>On Thursday 16 June 2005 03:00, A. Khattri enlightened us thusly:
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>>On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
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>>>Mobo: MSI MS-9130 Dual Socket 940 VIA K8T800 ATX Server Mobo
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>>The hardwareguys recommend nForce-based boards over VIA-based ones.
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>>You may also want to look at boards that support dual-core Opterons for
>>future upgradeability.
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>Honestly, I don't upgrade often enough to worry about that. I'm
>not usually one to buy bleeding edge technology, and dual Opterons
>is about as bleeding edge as I can stand. But I *will* consider
>nForce chipsets instead of VIA if the latter are problematic, as
>several respondents have suggested.
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>Thanks, Ajai,
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I can second the problematic VIA chipset thing. My problems have been 
with the VIA Rhine NIC drivers *VERY* low throughput.