SMP and dual coure CPUs

[bene at klatsch.org (Ben Eisenbraun)]

On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 09:33:38PM -0400, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> I want to get a dual CPU motherboard, and I want it to support dual core
> CPUs. In effect, have 4 cores. I'm kind of having a problem finding
> motherboards that support this, or at least finding the information I need
> to find one.

Your choices are basically either Tyan or Supermicro in the hobbyist/DIY 
categories.  I have 3 Tyan dual-CPU machines, all Opteron based, and 
they're fine once set up.  The initial set up required a time investment 
to get the kernel and drivers tweaked, but once each machine was running, 
it has been mostly trouble-free.

If you didn't want to build it yourself, Sun has some interesting looking 
dual CPU machines.

-b

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