stability or INstability of the MPX chipset

[tkim]

hey doods.....

as some of you cansee form my many posts about dual proc systems, i am in the market for one.

i was over at 2cpu.com and did some searching.....

conclusion: at first, i thought dual amd was going to be my best bet because of stabilty and performance....however, after reading some posts, stabiltiy seems to be out the door.

mainly because of driver issues (correct me if i am wrong) everyone was was saying how the mpx is immature

now i know some of the dual cpu guys oc it and do all sorts of crazy stuff.....for me, i want to run it as is. will all these stability issues be a concern for me???

please give me some insight!!??

 

[AGodspeed]

Take a look at the following examples:

Anand Lal Shimpi of Anandtech on the Tyan Tiger MP (AMD760MP chipset)

During our weeks of testing we never encountered a single problem with the Tiger MP, even after testing it outside of AMD's and Tyan's specifications by using Dual Athlon (Thunderbird) CPUs and Dual Duron (Morgan) CPUs

Johan De Gelas of Aceshardware on the Tyan Tiger MP (AMD760MP chipset)

As we have been able to test both boards for months now, we can safely say that Tyan's dual Athlon boards are the most stable Athlon platforms on earth. We have tested the samples that both AMD and Tyan have sent us, and several retail boards (Tyan Tiger MP) for more than three months now, and we have never seen one workstation benchmark fail or crash. That is remarkable, because we have not only benchmarked a wide variety of high-end software, but each test has also been repeated tens of times by now as we have been testing with 6 different OpenGL cards.

Anand are Johan are talking about the AMD760MP chipset, not the AMD MPX chipset. However, the ONLY difference between the 760MP and 760MPX chipset is that the MPX chipset supports a 64-bit/33MHz PCI bus. That's the only difference. Therefore, you can assume that the 760MP and 760MPX Tyan Tiger boards are going to almost exactly the same stability.

There was an issue early one with the MPX chipset and USB 1.1 support, however it was discovered that it only occurred in very specific configurations (i.e. not common configurations) and even hardware reviewers themselves weren't able to duplicate any USB 1.1 problems. Even so, AMD rectified the situation months ago with a new stepping of the MPX chipset that didn't have this minor issue.

If you go the dual CPU route, you're going to have a really kick ass system.