I am interested in pruchasing an AMD socket 939 based solution, but I am not impressed with any of the regular 939 chipsets. Nforce4 sounds way too buggy for my taste (even with firewall disabled and nvidia IDE drivers not installed) and each of the other mass market 939 chipsets on the market seem to have their share of problems (or at least the particular implementations do - e.g. while ULI 1697 and ULI 1695 may be good, it sounds like there have been a lot of reported problems with the ASrock939dualsata board).
fortunately there are stable workstation based products out on the market that use the nforce 2200 professional chipset instead of the nforce4. While the feature sets of these two chipsets from nvidia sound very similar, I read somewhere that the 2200 has 2 million extra transistors that must be doing something.
Anyway, I am interested in purchasing a Tyan tomcat K8E-SLI http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tomcatk8esli.html. This board sounds rock solid and is in the same price range as an asus A8N32-SLI.
This board requires an EPS12V compliant power supply. EPS12V is a standard used for servers developed by the Systems Service Infrastructure group: http://ssiforum.org/specifications.aspx
EPS12V power supplies have a 24 pin and an 8 pin power connector instead of a 24 pin and 4 pin connector. A lot of vendors claim to have power supplies that are both ATX and EPS12V certified (e.g. antec, seasonic), but from what I have read there are a few issues with some of these and it is better to get a dedicated EPS12V power supply like this one: Antec TPII 550 EPS12V
What is the quietest EPS12V power supply that would be suitable for the tomcat K8E-SLI?
fortunately there are stable workstation based products out on the market that use the nforce 2200 professional chipset instead of the nforce4. While the feature sets of these two chipsets from nvidia sound very similar, I read somewhere that the 2200 has 2 million extra transistors that must be doing something.
Anyway, I am interested in purchasing a Tyan tomcat K8E-SLI http://www.tyan.com/products/html/tomcatk8esli.html. This board sounds rock solid and is in the same price range as an asus A8N32-SLI.
This board requires an EPS12V compliant power supply. EPS12V is a standard used for servers developed by the Systems Service Infrastructure group: http://ssiforum.org/specifications.aspx
EPS12V power supplies have a 24 pin and an 8 pin power connector instead of a 24 pin and 4 pin connector. A lot of vendors claim to have power supplies that are both ATX and EPS12V certified (e.g. antec, seasonic), but from what I have read there are a few issues with some of these and it is better to get a dedicated EPS12V power supply like this one: Antec TPII 550 EPS12V
What is the quietest EPS12V power supply that would be suitable for the tomcat K8E-SLI?
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