Need help finding A MOBO. Put in ur 2cents

[ShellGuy]

I need to find a board that will support two AMD Opterons runnning 1ghz FSB and have two PCI-E 16x lanes.. With SATA ports for atleast 4 devices. Plan on running 3 Raptor drives and a Plextor DVD drive...



Will G.

 

[Boris teh Spider]

ASUS A8N-32. I would assume it has at least 4 SATA ports as even my EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra has 4.

 

[Finns14]

Uhh AMD don't use FSB

 

[Allio]

Originally posted by: Boris teh Spider
ASUS A8N-32. I would assume it has at least 4 SATA ports as even my EPoX 9NPA+ Ultra has 4.

Two Opterons?

 

[ShellGuy]

Finns,
Why do you think that AMD doesn't use FSB??

Tyan board i am looking at
Supported CPU
CPU Socket Type Dual Socket 940
CPU Type Dual AMD Opteron
FSB 800MHz Hyper Transport


Tech Spec
Core Italy
Name Dual-Core Opteron 265
Operating Frequency 1.8GHz
FSB 1GHz


Will G.

 

[ShadowBlade]

socket 939 or 940 opterons?

 

[ShellGuy]

They are 940 opts. The customer wants to build a killer photoediting machine.


Will G.

 

[ShellGuy]

Bump