RE: Hardware question - motherboards
>
> Greetings,
> I have the 1832, and I haven't had any problems with
> it, but then again, I
> only have one CPU installed. I chose this particular board
> because V A
> Linux is/was using this board in their dual processor systems, see
> http://www.valinux.com/products/mpts.html for the details.
> The 1832 won't
> handle the faster processors, but you can probably pick one up rather
> inexpensively on ebay.
>
Thanks for the comments. I'm not likely to miss the difference in speed.
1832 can handle 2-800MHz cpus and the 1834 can take 2-1GHz cpus. BFD.
In a first pass, the 1834 was cheaper than the 1832 by $10 or so. My main
concern is the via chipset. Do you have the optional isa slot?
jim
> HTH,
>
> Brooks
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Lewis, James M. [mailto:Jim.Lewis@alcoa.com]
> > Sent: Thursday, February 15, 2001 9:43 AM
> > To: debian-user (E-mail)
> > Subject: Hardware question - motherboards
> >
> >
> >
> > I have to upgrade and need comments on motherboards. The two I am
> > considering
> > most are the tyan tiger 133 (S1834) and the tyan tiger 100
> (S1832). The
> > s1834
> > is a little faster and uses the via apollo pro133a chipset. The
> > s1832 uses
> > the intel 440bx chipset.
> >
> > Any pros/cons welcome as well as comments on other dual cpu
> boards in the
> > same
> > class...
> >
> > tia
> > jim
> >
> >
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