Picked up a couple of Opteron 850's cheap, so now looking for a motherboard to put them in. Have been looking at the Tyan S2877 boards
Just wanted to ask the difference between the G2NR and ANRF. They look identical as far as I can see, but with a different LAN connector. Is that all???
uh OK, the S2887 GSNR has graphics but no audio on board, and the A2NF has audio but no graphics on board. Thanks www.tyan.com! Lot of nice boards there, but bit confusing to choose from...
Can I do better than one of these boards for a pair of opty 850's? I'll be wanting do multi-monitor stuff, such as realtime charting of incoming data, as well as several instances of trade execution platforms, while running some data-crunching backtesting in the background.
I guess I'd go for the on board with audio/no graphics, then drop a multi-monitor card in or something.
the Tyan website says S2887 boards support the 200 series Opteron. It appears the only board that supports the 850 is the Quad processor board. Is this correct?
I bought some Supermicro stuff from www.wiredzone.com and they've got some real good Supermicro prices. just type H8QCE in their search box and you will get their price. i believe the H8QCE is a bit over $1K
