Advice on hardware

[Elaine Tsiang YueLien <et@ihear.com>]

There seem to be two product lines available for quad dual core opterons
at this point, one based on the Iwill H4203 (MB+Chasis), and the other
on the Tyan S4882. Both are based on the AMD chipset. The Iwill MB has
only IDE controller on board, the Tyan has SATA or SCSI. The machine
will be used for compute-intensive tasks, server functions being not as
important. I would appreciate any comments on either, or comparisons.
Are there new MBs/systems in the works to be introduced in the near
future, before 2006?

TIA,
Elaine