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   #35. Posted at 12:21 AM on Jan 26th 2005 Edit   Reply
rika13
my question is when are they gonna release a socket 939 mobo (for my new shiny 90nm 3000+) with this monster on it?

HT is HT, the chipset should (in theory, and with some taiwanese mobo maker love) work with an athlon 64/fx
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   #3. Posted at 08:37 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
lemonhead
Rather long front page post for basically a PR announcement...
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#3, Heh, after watching years of TV my attention span wouldn't l...  :  5150  (#6)  «
#3, ehm, well, could be me, but every hard drive you add with RA...  :  Bob Maenhout  (#15)  «
#15, Raid-0 is a split on the amount of disk you have 4 disk, t...  :  Nuclear  (#18)  «
#15, You're completely wrong. RAID 5 = lower cost, medium relia...  :  Buub  (#34)  «
#3, So go complain to Anandtech, who managed to lengthen it to f...  :  UberGerbil  (#24)  «
#24, Anandech could post about rusty razor blades for 10 pages...  :  lemonhead  (#32)  «

   #10. Posted at 09:26 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
An Ominous Gerbil
I wonder if these boards will ship with PCI-X as well as PCI-E.

4-lane PCI-E shows lots of promise for RAID cards and such, but so far no cards exist. =/ PCI-X is where it's at if you need non-bottlenecking disk performance.

(currently using Tyan Thunder K8S w/PCI-X SATA and SCSI RAID cards -- I want a K8W for my personal gaming box but don't have the money yet =D )
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#10, Yes, it looks like the first to market will be iwill and tya...  :  madlemming  (#14)  «
#14, I found some more pics of the Tyan boards at Digit-Life: h...  :  CasbahBoy  (#33)  «

   #31. Posted at 09:50 PM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
stmok
The Tyan mobo using this chipset
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we_spec.html
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   #30. Posted at 09:09 PM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
albundy
nForce Professional 2200

what no serialSCSI raid controller? How can it be professional? :(
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   #27. Posted at 05:08 PM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
dragmor
If this had raid 5 it would make a kick arse Oracle server. Would kick the crap out of the quad xeons.

4 CPU's 16gb NUMA ram, 4 gb net (with 0 cpu usage hit), SATA boot disks on raid 1 (is nvidia raid 1 plug and play without reboot?).

Could still use it, just got to wait for the PCIe 16 SCSI raid cards to come out.
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#27, I certainly hope not! SCSI is and will be replaced with seri...  :  albundy  (#29)  «

   #25. Posted at 02:52 PM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
SpotTheCat
that would make quite the powerful box.

now if nVidia could figure out how to use the giant FPU on their graphics cards to fold for us, 2x opteron + 2x 6800GT = lots and lots of points
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#25, That's not nVidia's problem. And there's nothing to "figure ...  :  UberGerbil  (#28)  «

   #26. Posted at 03:58 PM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
Tumbleweed
Dis - thanks for the clarification; that's great news. No need to get a separate SATA controller in that case. Cannot wait to see some of the boards using these chips...
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   #19. Posted at 02:00 PM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
UberGerbil
I may be confused here, but to have "two Opteron processors to support one nForce Pro 2200 and three 2050s" each CPU needs 3 HT links (CPU1 talks to CPU2, 2200, 2050; CPU2 talks to CPU1, 2050 x 2), which requires you to use 8xx Opterons... correct? That's a pretty expensive way to configure a dual system (not that anything about this is inexpensive). Though clearly this would be suited for massive IO rather than computation.
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#19, All Opterons have three HT links. The difference between 1xx...  :  Dissonance  (#22)  «
#22, Ah, ok. I thought perhaps the 4xx and 2xx had one or two ...  :  UberGerbil  (#23)  «

   #20. Posted at 02:10 PM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
Tumbleweed
Derek Wilson from Anandtech says it does NOT support TCQ. :(
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#20, I specifically asked NVIDIA about TCQ support and was told t...  :  Dissonance  (#21)  «

   #17. Posted at 01:32 PM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
gmorgan_va
Actually, Tekram has an 8 lane PCI-E SATA RAID card available. I was trying to figure out what board you'd be able to use it on, but with these new chipsets, maybe someone will actually make a board with an additional 8x or 16x slot for storage. Here's a URL: http://www.tekram.com/raidcrde.html
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   #16. Posted at 11:20 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
dukerjames
is that the release date?? too bad i won't live long enough to see the 2200 then...
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   #2. Posted at 08:33 AM on Jan 24th 2005, Edited at 08:33 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
GodsMadClown
With support for that many SATA drives, do you think that any of those boards will have a hardware RAID 5 implementation onboard? Something from Promise w/ like 32MB of onboard SDRAM cache?
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#2, RAID 5 isn't really a target for the boards these chip's wil...  :  Randy2  (#13)  «

   #7. Posted at 09:10 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
Illissius
Anyone else thinking that the 2050 will end up being the southbridge for the Intel nForce? Jives well with the rumors that it'll use HyperTransport as the interconnect.
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#7, I doubt it; the 2050 doesn't have PCI, IDE or USB support.  :  DaveJB  (#12)  «

   #11. Posted at 09:32 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
Hattig
Wow, nice!

I just hope that nVidia provide decent drivers for Linux and FreeBSD, and specifications for other operating systems. Although it is more of a workstation chipset I suppose. I expect a common configuration will be 1 2200 and 1 2050.
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   #8. Posted at 09:14 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
Bob Maenhout
I WANT ONE! holy sh*t, Im gonna work some more lol. Hopefully the registered memory is faster by then somehow so Opterons are worth it for gaming... Well, quat SLI, we dont want that?:D(well, it would be kinda expensive Im afrait:S). Enough storage possiblities. But as Godsmadclown already said, there should be Raid 5... thats even faster than raid 0 ghehe
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#8, Since when is raid-5 faster than raid-0 ?? Raid-0 is the fast...  :  Nuclear  (#9)  «

   #5. Posted at 08:49 AM on Jan 24th 2005, Edited at 08:49 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
OnlyHalfKidding
Holy schnikes! i'm impressed. this thing will absolutely kill in the high-end workstation department. What in the world would you do with 80 lanes of PCIe though? 2xGeforce6800GT's ^2, with room left over? mmm...
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   #4. Posted at 08:46 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
Chryx
I filled the cup bucket.
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   #1. Posted at 08:21 AM on Jan 24th 2005 Edit   Reply
liquidsquid
Wow, this has new work machine written all over it. Overkill for a gamer I would think, unless they really do like to waste money.

-LS
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