[geeks] Good low-end AMD 64bit system?

[Shawn Wallbridge]

If only you could get a Dual Opteron with PCI Express. We have been 
waiting months for them. nVidia offered to ship us a few, but we are 
waiting to get regular production boards. In July AMD's product manager 
for the Opteron said it would be October/November, but now we are 
hearing February or March. Iwill did have a board on display at 
SIGGRAPH, but it wasn't actually running, it was just under glass, so 
who knows if it worked.

shawn


On 27-Dec-04, at 10:31 PM, Dan Sikorski wrote:

> Bill Bradford wrote:
>
>> I'm going to possibly build a low-end 64-bit AMD system in the next
>> couple of weeks.  The only real experience I've had with building 
>> 'semi-recent'
>> x86 hardware in the past 2-3 years is my VIA EPIA C3-based mini-ITX 
>> stuff;
>> I've not touched any of the AMD offerings since the Athlon 
>> Thunderbird.
>>
>> Suggestions on chips, motherboards, etc?  I'll go with a GeForce FX 
>> 5x00
>> series AGP video card...
> If i were you, i would not consider getting anything other than a 
> nvidia NForce4 chipset, which will mean that you'll need a pci express 
> video card, not agp.  Josh Snyder (who is on the rescue list, but not 
> geeks and is cc'ed on this message) could tell you all the details 
> about what boards to get.
>
>    -Dan Sikorski
>
>
> -- 
> No virus found in this outgoing message.
> Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
> Version: 7.0.298 / Virus Database: 265.6.5 - Release Date: 12/26/2004
> _______________________________________________
> GEEKS:  http://www.sunhelp.org/mailman/listinfo/geeks