On Thu, 2006-03-30 at 15:11 -0500, Gaspar Bakos wrote: > Hello, > > Does anyone have a comparison and experience with the following Tyan > Quad motherboards supporting 4 AMD opteron CPUS?: > > S4881: AMD-8000 + NVIDIA chipset > S4882: AMD-8000 chipset > S4885: nVidia chipset > > Our goal is to build a 4 CPU Opteron system, each CPU being dual core (so > essentially we would have 8 CPUs). We would run RH FC[345] on it > (whichever we find more stable for the purpose). > > I did lot of googling, and the above motherboards are pretty much > compatible with recent linux kernels. However, there may be subtle > incompatibilities (e.g. Broadcom, Silicon fake SATA drivers, etc.) that > would rank the motherboards as one being more linux compatible than others. > > Even experience such as "I have this system and runs fine" would be useful. > > Cheers > Gaspar > I'm running FC4 on a dual - dual core Tyan Thunder K8WE (s2895) without any problems. (Just make sure you configure the BIOS' OS type to Linux). I doubt that the s48xx will cause you any grief. -However-, make sure you get a new s4882/5. As far as I remember, the original s4881 didn't support dual core Opterons. Gilboa
