Recent content by Vincent231

All this is very interesting. Are any of the manufacturers planning to release dual Opteron boards similar to the TYAN S2885 (http://www.ocworkbench.com/ocwbcgi/newspro/viewnews.cgi?newsid1061363735,36507) without integrated six channel audio w/ SPDIF? Everything about the board seems just...

As far as budget goes, I haven't set one yet ;) I am interested in getting bang for the buck though; I don't have the pockets or the desire to spend a huge premium for, say, a 20% performance increase, but I will spend what it takes to get a solid system that will boost productivity. With...

Those are nice looking boards, and yikes, are they ever pricey. I'm a little confused about why Opteron is better than a P4 3.0C solution for 2D design and photo/video editing; content creation seems to be higher on the P4 (http://www.anandtech.com/cpu/showdoc.html?i=1818&p=5), as does video...

OK, thanks for that... Athlon 64 is expected to be a good system for 2D design & video? I'll do a little research and look up the Opteron solution while I'm at it. I haven't been keeping up with the new and upcoming developments in chipsets, etc. What is it about the Opteron + AGP system that...

Any thoughts? I'm not stuck on any particular chipset or CPU -- all options are open. My priorities are: - Stability (no-overclocking for me) - The ability to max out on fast memory (for big photoshop files) - Having IDE RAID 0 and the latest interfaces so that I can avoid as many...