[geeks] Dual CPU PC Motherboards?

[Dan Sikorski]

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