Tyan Four Processor Motherboard
Now that Apple has released their new G5 dual processor machines, I was wondering what people would think of the link above. The company states it holds four Opteron Processors and 32 GB of DDR400 RAM.
How does this stack to the G5? Is this motherboard meant more for server or desktop use?
Originally posted by chiashing@Jun 10 2004, 06:18 AMIs this motherboard meant more for server or desktop use?
Its totaly for desktop use. You know browsing the web, sending emails, calculating pi. I bet it even fits in one of thoes shuttle cases. :canadian:
If you couldn't tell, chiashing, LostSpyder was being extremely sarcastic.
That's a server board. Because of the lack of AGP-Pro (or even AGP, for that matter) and PCI-Express, it's kinda obvious that it wouldn't be anything but a server - who cares what graphics card you use in a server? You're almost never gonna be looking at it's screen (if it even has one!).
If you want to talk about boards that compare to the G5, you might want to look at Tyan's Thunder K8W. It's been around for a few months now, and supports dual Opterons, up to 16GiB of DDR RAM, AGP 8x Pro, and various other things...
But this still isn't for "desktop" use, in the normal sense - it's designed, as with the G5, to act as a workstation. A desktop powerhouse, if you will. Buying either a G5 or an Opteron system for surfing the web et al. is like buying a four-by-four to do the school run - it'll do it easily, but you won't be using anything like the power it provides.
For what it's worth, the current top of the range Opteron - the Opteron 250 - runs at 2.4GHz, and the next model - the Opteron 252 - will run at 2.6GHz (and is due for release later this year).
As for how they stack up against one another, that's all a matter of what you use it for.
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