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On 06/17/2005 10:38 PM, James McDonald wrote:
> Kurt Wall wrote:
> 
>>On Thursday 16 June 2005 03:00, A. Khattri enlightened us thusly:
>>  
>>
>>>On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Kurt Wall wrote:
>>>    
>>>
>>>>Mobo: MSI MS-9130 Dual Socket 940 VIA K8T800 ATX Server Mobo
>>>>      
>>>>
>>>The hardwareguys recommend nForce-based boards over VIA-based ones.
>>>
>>>You may also want to look at boards that support dual-core Opterons for
>>>future upgradeability.
>>>    
>>>
>>
>>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.
>>
>>Thanks, Ajai,
>>  
>>
> I can second the problematic VIA chipset thing. My problems have been 
> with the VIA Rhine NIC drivers *VERY* low throughput.

That's odd, i'm not seeing that with VIA rhine drivers.

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