[ILUG] Dual Opteron M/B

David Gillen belial at redbrick.dcu.ie
Thu Sep 16 20:55:01 IST 2004


On Thu, 16 Sep 2004 in lists.ilug you wrote:
> Finally found someone who can source Dual Opteron M/B's! Quicktec.ie in 
> Galway. At least I'm in Galway ATM to make things easy. The only down side 
> is, the board I'm looking at is 595 Euro's + VAT!
> 
> Then add 720 per Opteron processor and a few 1G Registered 400Mhz DDR RAM's, 
> it's starting to look like it's far outside my budget )-:
> 
> But, when I dream, at least I dream big (-;
> 
> My fall-back is one of the new Athlon64 upgrade kits now hitting the shelves. 
> I want 64 bit and I want it NOW! I want a system that does not support any 
> current 'stable' release of M$ software (-;
> 
Get yourself a sparc so. I've an Athlon 64. Win 2k runs quite nicely on it.
Haven't gotten around to sticking 64bit mandrake on it, I will shortly though.

db
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