[geeks] Athlon Motherboards

[vance at neurotica.com]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Will Mc Donald wrote:

> > > Can someone recommend an Athlon Motherboard that has SCSI built-in?
> >
> > Not to derail Sridhar's question but along a slightly different line
> > can anyone recommend an Athlon motherboard that does *not* have video,
> > audio and/or network built in?  I prefer to choose my own components.
>
> Tyan do MP boards that satisfy both your requirements IIRC.
>
> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/athlon.html
>
> The Tiger MPX does have an onboard NIC but no video or SCSI. The Thunder
> boards both come with integrated NICs and SCSI (U320 on the Pro model).

These would be fine for me, except that they don't support AGP 8X.  My
next question is: Does that matter?  (This is a gaming box I'm upgrading.)

The other thing is that I'm slightly leaning towards an Opteron
motherboard, and Tyan doesn't have an Opteron motherboard that has both
AGP and SCSI.  I guess they think that only servers need SCSI, but I won't
use IDE for anything except maybe for laptops.

Peace...  Sridhar