What is the best BX based Dual Proc IDE mother board to get?

[Icy]

I am going to beef up my server a little. I have two PII 400mhz procs laying around and 384MB of memory in it now. I would like to go dual procs/Win2000 server. I have everything but the MB. What does everyone recommend?
Thanks!

 

[Kwad Guy]

No question: Tyan Tiger 100. This is a solid entry level server
board. It's old school BX-based technology (UDMA33, 100Mhz FSB,
slot 1), but if you're gonna use PII 400's, what do you care.
No onboard SCSI, either, if that's important to you. Get a Revision
F of the board, and it'll support Coppermine processors as well,
if you decide to upgrade later on.

Kwad

 

[Icy]

GREAT! Just what I was looking for, I have way to many IDE ATA 33 drives right now to worry about SCSI so that will be perfect thanks!
Icy

 

[Icy]

I am having trouble finding that board on Tyan's site. The one review I came across say's without a doubt I want the Rev. F because the first boards in that series were trouble. That review also had the specs at PII/PIII 450-850....hmmm I have 400's.

 

[KpocAlypse]

I second the tyan tiger rev. F. If you got 100mhz chips, its a very stable solution.

 

[Icy]

Ok anyone have a link where I could by a revision F and how do I know that it is truly a revision F. I have found a Tyan s1834D is that a revision F?

 

[Kwad Guy]

The 1834 is the Tyan Tiger 133. You DO NOT want this
board. It's based on the VIA chipset (== suck), has a history
of problems, and is, beyond all that, inexplicably SLOWER than the
100Mhz Tyan Tiger 100.

If you get the 133, you will regret it.

The Tiger 100 is the s1832 or (OEM version) s1833. Look around,
you'll find one. The Revision "F" version can be identified by
an "F" sticker on the board (it's easy to find).

Kwad

 

[Desmoquattro]

asus p2b-d.

 

[Tweakin]

Get the Tyan 1832 Tiger Rev F and you can use PIII. I just gave mine to my sister with dual 650e's running a 133 bus for 866Mhz of fun. Add a Matrox G450 Dual Head, 1 Gig of RAM and a couple of IBM GXP 60's and you have a great workstation. This board is now archived but I think you can still find them at googlegear As a side note, I started with the ASUS but 4 PCI slots just didn't cut it, went to a Supermicro P6DBE but the performance just wasn't up to par, and ended up with the Tyan. I don't think you can go wrong.

Hope this helps