Re: suggested motherboards for Opteron 175

From: Chris (ithinkiam_at_gmail.com)
Date: 10/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Oct 2005 14:20:28 +0000

General Schvantzkoph wrote:
> On Mon, 31 Oct 2005 10:44:39 +0000, Chris wrote:
>
>
>>Bruce Allen wrote:
>>
>>>What motherboards are a good match for Linux and an Opteron 175? This
>>>is for a 'thin' cluster computing node.
>>>
>>>Ideally I'd like:
>>> - one or two onboard copper gigE ports
>>> - *basic* onbaord graphics (nothing fancy needed).
>>> - support for 4 GB of ECC non-registered RAM
>>> - available 'remote managemnent' (IMPI 2.0 prefered) option
>>> - two or four port SATA controller onboard
>>> - lots of motherboard headers for controlling internal fans
>>> which monitor the fan speed.
>>> - I have no preference regarding PCI, PCI-X or PCI-express slots
>>>
>>>I have a preference for AMD chipsets because the docs are open, rather
>>>than nVidia. But anything is OK provided it has reasonable 2.6 kernel
>>>support.
>>>
>>>One option is the Tyan Tomcat 2865, used in the Sun x2100. What else
>>>would be a good match?
>>>
>>>[One further question, can one use *any* Socket 939 motherboard, or does
>>>it need to have some 'special' Opteron support?]
>>>
>>
>>No it can't by any socket /939/ as Opterons are socket 940
>>only.
>>
>>Is there a specific reason why you prefer Opteron 175s over
>>Athlon 64s? Apart from the ECC requirement they are
>>essentially the same, but the Athlons are much cheaper.
>
>
> The Athlon64 supports ECC, the difference between the A64 and the Opteron
> 1xx is registered vs unregistered memory.

Oops. Thanks for the correction Gen.

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