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

fkloster

Diamond Member
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)
 
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.
 
And here is the quote from Dream Machine article, page 33 :

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

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

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