Re: Advice on hardware ... Tyan S2895 K8WE
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 22:48 +0100, Tim Matthews wrote:
> I did have the chance to test a Tyan S2895 (www.k8we.com).
>
> I tried Suse, Fedora, FreeBSD and Debian (all the Amd64 ports).
>
> Debian performed the best of all on that mainboard. Though, I would have
> liked to put the OS through more testing on it.
> I could use the NVIDIA chipset with Debian.
>
> Though, if you use the S2895 .. be ready for much pain. We did replace
> it with a more mellow K8SD Pro (less agony).
>
Was any proprietary driver required for the S2895?
Was there no detectable difference in performance for cpu/memory/disk
tests between the 2 chipsets?
Thanks,
Elaine
> tim
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