This board scares me

[Missing Ghost]

THIS
I think I see dual socket 479....is this even possible???

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Missing Ghost
THIS
I think I see dual socket 479....is this even possible???

Yes, Tyan makes very good mobos. They have dual socket mobos for every chip out there. They even have quad socket mobos.

 

[krotchy]

If your buying a server/workstation mobo, Tyan is the way to go IMO. They dont really make any enthusiest/consumer boards, but their enterprise stuff is fantastic. I built a workstation using a Tyan Thunder K8WE, Quadro 3400, 2xOpteron 285's, 8 RAID 0 HD's (on a SATA controller) and this thing flies through complex applications, and streams in uncompressed 1080p video with ease.

 

[Missing Ghost]

I don't care that it's from Tyan but look dual socket 479! I thought socket 479 = laptop, no smp support.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: Missing Ghost
I thought socket 479 = laptop

It certainly looks like the notebook socket, with that screw instead of lever, plus hardly any space around the CPU for a typical desktop cooler (or normal mounting).

 

[tomt4535]

Dual Socket 479 😕

 

[Oyeve]

Originally posted by: Missing Ghost
I don't care that it's from Tyan but look dual socket 479! I thought socket 479 = laptop, no smp support.

Thats why it has 2 sockets. The chipset probably enables some sort of SMP support.

 

[pkme2]

Not too much data to critique. Tyan makes good mobos as stated before. One advantage clearly seen is the banks of 8 DDR2 slots.

 

[Peter]

This either has a yet unknown chipset with dual front side busses (as seen WAY earlier with AMD's dual K7 Athlon boards), or there are/will be socket-479 processors that do have the capability of sharing one FSB (like P4 Xeons do).
From how the sockets are positioned against the north bridge, I'd guess the latter.

All speculative of course. Is there a closer look to that board, where one could see how the traces run between north bridge and CPU sockets?

 

[Missing Ghost]

Ok so according to people from hardOCP, this runs Xeon LV chips. They have the "Sossaman" core. It's like the Intel core duo (Yonah), but in Xeon form. It does have SMP support, but no 64 bit, no hyperthreading. Weird I haven't heard of this before.

 

[EatSpam]

Originally posted by: Missing Ghost
Ok so according to people from hardOCP, this runs Xeon LV chips. They have the "Sossaman" core. It's like the Intel core duo (Yonah), but in Xeon form. It does have SMP support, but no 64 bit, no hyperthreading. Weird I haven't heard of this before.

Pretty worthless without 64bit ... probably doesn't have VT either... 🙁

 

[Aluvus]

Originally posted by: EatSpam

Originally posted by: Missing Ghost
Ok so according to people from hardOCP, this runs Xeon LV chips. They have the "Sossaman" core. It's like the Intel core duo (Yonah), but in Xeon form. It does have SMP support, but no 64 bit, no hyperthreading. Weird I haven't heard of this before.

Pretty worthless without 64bit ... probably doesn't have VT either... 🙁

Sossaman supports Virtualization Technology. I'm not exactly sure why EM64T was left out, but it was.

 

[Missing Ghost]

I think it does not have EM64T cause it's based on P6 cores.