I'm in love (again...another sweet platform from Tyan)

[fkloster]

The all mighty Thunder S2520 will soon be available:

Dual channel onboard U160
Dual socket 370
Dual onboard LAN ports
4-64 bit backward compatible 66mhz PCI slots (2-5 volt / 2-3.3 volt)
...and up to 2 Gigs of interleaving rambus memory!

not for the casual gamer but can't one fantisize about loadin' this sucker up with two 1 giggers & four X-15's on a stripe & hittin' that fat power switch??? I wonder how much power that bastard would suck? (o.k. back to reality fkloster)

 

[Noriaki]

Nice, very nice. Dual Onboard Ethernet ports, that's really cool.

 

[Radboy]

4 Rambu$ slot$. Oh, my aching wallet.

 

[Budman]

I prefer this one here s2398🙂

Yum DDR Socket A goodness.🙂

 

[office boy]

<< up to 2 Gigs of interleaving rambus memory! >>


almost as fast as pc-133 then eh?

 

[fkloster]

Haven't seen to many i840 memory benchmarks Officeboy but Maximum PC had a dream machine made up with interleaving memory that 'looked' like it could slap any PC-133 platform. Merely speculation though because system memory architecture speed is only one part of the BIG picture.

 

[Vrangel]

And here is the quote from Dream Machine article, page 33 :

&quot;If you think its foolish to spend $2000 on 512MB of memory ,
spend $200 on 256MB of PC 133 instead...&quot;

Total price tag for Dream Machine : $12.000 :disgust:
Excuse me, 12 grand for a PC ? Thanks, I'd rather buy a car.

 

[Shagga]

Nice.!

I would never buy another mobo with onboard SCSI. I bought an ASUS P2L97-S with onboard Adaptec UW SCSI contoller. Now as most of you will know, you couldn't upgrade this past 333MHz, CPU's therefore it was a complete loss when I finally did upgrade. I will only ever buy a seperate SCSI card again.

🙂

 

[Howard]

Here

4GB of main memory
6 64bit PCI slots

 

[pm]

On a side note, how does the Serverworks HE-SL chipset perform compared to, say, the Via 133A Pro chipset? Has anyone seen any benchmarks?

 

[fkloster]

Damn Yucky, that silicon is fat! Lookie @ the dual Power supply hook ups!!!

 

[pm]

Being a little older I may be a little out of touch, but I thought the term was &quot;phat&quot; not &quot;fat&quot; - unless you mean that it really is fat. 🙂

 

[Lore]

Based on what I was told about the Serverworks chipset by someone in the industry, the performance of the entire system is significantly better than any Via/Intel offering currently available. For example, the AGP 2x/Pro slot supposedly performs better than an AGP4X with Fast Write slot. Amazing.

I'm about to get one of the Tyan Thunder 2500 boards, if I can find one.