Fri Oct 12 23:17:20 2001

I will r001 teh Woruld wiff this!

Fri Oct 12 23:22:49 2001

Fri Oct 12 23:34:47 2001

Fri Oct 12 23:43:50 2001

It has dual socket A with dual channel IDE (up to 4 devices)

Up to 3Gigbytes Registered DDR PC2100 (4 slots)

AMD-760 MP chipset
AMD-762 North bridge & AMD-766 South bridge
Winbond W83627HF Super I/O ASIC

No Fusking VIA (which incidently fusked up my Win2k partition twice in the past week through data corruption in the security necessitating reinstalls)

One AGP slot supports 2x/4x modes
Four 64-bit and two 32-bit 33MHz (5-volt) PCI slots (v2.2 compliant)

I ordered 256 MB Crucial Registered PC2100 DDR Ram

Fri Oct 12 23:54:01 2001

More details on the rig itself; not just the mobo.

Fri Oct 12 23:54:42 2001

Sat Oct 13 00:19:00 2001

Dost thou liketh mine new custom title and signature?
 

Yea, verily!

Sat Oct 13 00:28:28 2001

I shall use that Antec case that is the same as Alienware uses along with this Motherboard.

I already have a Thunderbird 1.2 gig @266fsb, I shall try to aquire another soon enough.

I shall also add my New Radeon All-in-Wonder and Santa Cruz sound card.

It shall have my 40gig seagate Barracuda II 7200rpm

Also, an IDE TDK VeloCD 12x/32x burner.

I shall consider more memory, as it's only $42per 256 Dimm

I also am trying to aquire a DVD player from the Agora Classifieds.

Later shall come firewire and a 21inch monitor.

Software shall include Office XP which I have aquired for the lofty sum of $35

TrueSpace 4 also (which cost me $550)

Windows2000 Pro

and More......

Sat Oct 13 00:50:52 2001

But if I were going to build a new system, I'd use a board with a 760MPX chipset (64bit/66MHz PCI), a pair of AthlonMP 1800+ (1533MHz), a gig or two of Registered ECC DDR, and an all-SCSI subsystem; not sure on which components exactly.

Sat Oct 13 01:40:37 2001

Sat Oct 13 02:01:00 2001

why not try selling it on Agora?

Sat Oct 13 02:06:38 2001

The processors HAVE to be in ordered pairs, and are avaliable in only 1 ghz and 1.2 ghz.  These are palaminos,
designed for dual processor boards, and the 1.2 and 1.4
single amd processors are NOT APPROVED BY TYAN, AND WILL NOT WORK.  Or at least, that's what they said.
Great idea, but the processors are expensive right now, because they are in demand.

I would love to do what you are trying to do.

Socrates

Sat Oct 13 02:09:45 2001

Socrates

Sat Oct 13 02:14:17 2001

Sat Oct 13 02:26:48 2001

The processors, at the time I checked, where avaliable only in pairs, and for a premium price, and they are Palaminos, not the 1.2 and 1.4 gig processors that you buy for a single processor machine.

I called tyan, and their tech support told me that AMD wanted them to offer the processors in pairs, and only those processors would work.  

I had my tech guy check, and the processors where expensive,
like 170 each, or more, and I felt I couldn't afford the cost of switching over, much as I would love to have a 64 bit slot to take advantage of my ATTO U3 board, and the raid 0 attached to it.

Things may have changed since then, but, better safe then sorry.

Socrates

Sat Oct 13 02:39:04 2001

Check the power supply requirements for this beast.  The original Thunder required a trick, shitty, 460 watt supply.

I suspect you are going to need in the range of a 400 watt power supply, at least, to feel safe.  I went with the antec
430, and I'm glad I did.  I have only one processor.

AMD's website is a good place to find what they recommend with their stuff.

Socrates

Sat Oct 13 03:01:21 2001

AYB!!!! I HATE J0000!!!!!!!
No i don't but i like what you're going to make. Shall i suggest you call your new pc the "Dual Headed Poopy Monster!!!!"

Yay!!!!

Sat Oct 13 03:23:45 2001

As far as CPU's [url=http://firingsquad.gamers.com/hardware/dualduron/]Firingsquad[/url] is using a tiger in conjuction with Thunderbirds and Spitfires, and it seems to work for them.

?????????????????????????

Well, the vendor has already shipped my order (damn dependable assholes! ;) )

THey said I could refuse the shipment and therefore get no restocking fee (minus the cost of shipping)

But I think I'm going to go forward with this.

Sat Oct 13 03:27:17 2001

Sat Oct 13 03:48:12 2001

Good place to start.

Best of luck.

Socrates

Sat Oct 13 03:50:48 2001

I'm looking over at the forums over at [url=wws.2cpu.com]2Cpu[/url] for more info.

I've also posted over on Ars. I'm not going to provide a link there because you all should know where Arstechnica is.

ph00lz!

Sat Oct 13 05:31:57 2001

I'm going to be really pissed, because I really wanted that
64 bit pci slots, and, I would love to have a dual, for doing stuff like transfering Mandrake iso's, and still being able to use the computer. etc.

Socrates

Sat Oct 13 06:02:36 2001

Kevin
Let me know if they have it running with dual athlon 1.4's.

Now the question of the day is, WHO THE FUCK IS KEVIN???

Sat Oct 13 07:43:26 2001

What Kevin are you talking about?????

Stay away from those hormones...

Socrates

Sat Oct 13 10:21:50 2001

Sat Oct 13 16:38:46 2001

Sat Oct 13 16:42:51 2001

and then Oscar have more poop on him than ever.

I'm all for that :)

Sat Oct 13 17:02:52 2001

and then Oscar have more poop on him than ever.

That'd be a lot of poop.

Sat Oct 13 17:29:08 2001

But so-far, it looks like T-birds will work, even in unmatched pairs seem to work (as long as they are of same spec.

Most complain that they "don't work right" citing lesser performance by SMP T-birds than Palamino's, yet they forget that Single proc MP's have an IPC advantage over the older T-bird core through encancements like Automated Pre-fetch and larger TBL's etc.

This thing is still going to rock!

plus I will be riding myself of Via!

Sat Oct 13 18:49:06 2001

So who the fuck is this kevin? Sounds like he was addressing AYB as kevin. But AYb isn't kevin. At ars he's johnson, and his real name isn't kevin either. Unless there is someone else emailing me that pretending to be AYb over here.  SHIT!!!! I've been telling this guy over email all about my poopy fantasis and all he does in reply is smam my email box. LOL!!! I got more emails from AYB then from anyone else... "You got spam" :biggrin:

Sat Oct 13 19:06:36 2001

Sat Oct 13 19:08:59 2001

Finding a friend with AOL is also out of the question, as I would ph34r contamination of some sort. Worse than cooties, even.

Sat Oct 13 19:14:01 2001

Sat Oct 13 20:14:17 2001

Sat Oct 13 20:39:09 2001

And I much enjoy smamming OW's inbox with my flowery, lovely works of fart!

Sat Oct 13 20:50:58 2001

And I much enjoy smamming OW's inbox with my flowery, lovely works of fart!

Sat Oct 13 22:06:11 2001

I don't know who this Kevin person you are alluding to is.

Oh: that's my favorite name for my right hand(veg)

Socrates

And, you thought I was straight...

Sun Oct 14 00:25:09 2001

from Socrates posted at 5:06 pm on Oct. 13, 2001

And, you thought I was straight...

No I didnt

Sun Oct 14 01:03:43 2001

That's right.
I forgot the old Socratic stories...

Socrates
I'm old, and it's been a long time

Sun Oct 14 01:21:55 2001

Socrates

Sun Oct 14 01:23:38 2001

Socrates