Gigabyte GA-7DPXDW-P; good board?

Hi,

Aren't Opteron systems really expensive? And Athlon 64 will be for
uniprocessor systems only, won't it? If I am incorrect please fill me in as
I don't want to put my money into something that will not be as powerful as
I could get. I just thought for price to performance ratio the Athlon MP
systems were the way to go?!

Thanks,

RC


"S.Heenan" <HadMyFillofSpam RemoveThis @Thanks.net> wrote in message
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 > R.Chamberlain wrote:
  > > Hi,
  > >
  > > I am thinking about getting a dual Athlon Gigabyte board and am
  > > wondering what others felt about this board and what memory you
  > > should use in it? Also, does it come with USB 2.0 connections and can
  > > the Promise raid controller be used with ATA 100 hard drives?
  > >
  > > Thanks,
  > >
  > > RC
 >
 > Since the AMD 760MPX chipset supports ECC and Registered RAM, you'll want
at
 > least PC2100 ECC Registered. It does not support USB2. You'd need a PCI
 > controller card ($20). IIRC, you may use the Promise PDC20276 for IDE
 > devices in a non-RAID configuration.
 >
 > For the costs involved, you'd do well to look into an Opteron based system
 > or perhaps even an Athlon64 system come September 2003.
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"R.Chamberlain" <firewirepro RemoveThis @shaw.ca> wrote in
news:8mx_a.747278$Vi5.17029142@news1.calgary.shaw.ca:

 > Hi,
 >
 > I am thinking about getting a dual Athlon Gigabyte board and am
 > wondering what others felt about this board and what memory you should
 > use in it? Also, does it come with USB 2.0 connections and can the
 > Promise raid controller be used with ATA 100 hard drives?
 >
 > Thanks,
 >
 > RC
 >
 >
 >

Mine has been flawless after a few days of tweaking, One very FINE
motherboard. Had a tyan 2460 before this, and this one is FAR more
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