[geeks] Dual CPU PC Motherboards?

[Kevin]

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Of course i'm sure every mobo manufacturer has had at least a
few customer complaints before, but i for one will never buy
another Gigabyte mobo.

I bought a 6BXDU (if i remember the model number correctly)
back in 1999.  Cost was around $450.  Bought one of the first
GeForce cards in 2000 and it would not work in that machine,  
Found out later that that mobo, and a few others form Gigabyte
didn't fully support the AGP spec.  They didn't supply the
correct voltage.  I went to look for a support number to call
and found none, just an email address to some tech support
people who took a week to respond and who were no help in the
end.

Found a mod (from a complete third party) for the motherboard
to correct the problem about a year later.  Gigabyte said it
supported AGP, and it didn't.  I expected a refund or a fix
and all i got was a few late emails saying in essence, we
can't help you.

Kevin

On 24 Mar 2003 21:58:19 -0500
Dan Sikorski <me at dansikorski.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-03-24 at 18:02, William Barnett-Lewis wrote:
> > I'm pondering upgrading the motherboard on my game box and
> > was thinking about the possibility of a dual AMD board.
> > Anyone have any recomendations or warnings to pass along? 
> > 
> 
> 
> I have a Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW-C and i like it.  I had a
> helluva time with it before i flashed it to the
> latest-and-greatest firmware, but it's been rock solid
> since.  Also, i bought athlon XP's instead of MP's.  you
> need to connect two small pins on the top of the processor
> to make them work in a multiprocessor configuration, but
> it's not hard, only takes a few minutes, and works like a
> charm.  I chose the Gigabyte board because i read a couple
> of reviews that had it and the asus board with better
> performance than the other 760mpx boards.  I've got a gig of
> RAM (NOTE: the GA-7DPXDW and possibly other 760mpx boards
> REQUIRE regeistered ECC DDR DIMMs.) in mine, and an adaptec
> ultra160 controller with a cheetah x15 drive.  It's about as
> fast as an x86 machine gets.
> 
> 	-Dan Sikorski
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