From chemistry-request@server.ccl.net Fri Apr 25 18:43:26 2003 Received: from ultra.chem.ucsb.edu ([128.111.114.119]) by server.ccl.net (8.11.6/8.11.0) with ESMTP id h3PMhQa30715 for ; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 18:43:26 -0400 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ultra.chem.ucsb.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 223F450357; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:43:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ultra.chem.ucsb.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (ultra [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 00875-08; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:43:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: by ultra.chem.ucsb.edu (Postfix, from userid 3016) id E10A050351; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ultra.chem.ucsb.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9E011707D2; Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:43:11 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 25 Apr 2003 15:43:11 -0700 (PDT) From: John Bushnell To: jmmckel@attglobal.net Cc: chemistry@ccl.net Subject: Re: CCL:AMD Dual Processor Boxes In-Reply-To: <3EA80E5C.20386F5A@attglobal.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new Well, we've got around 64 Tyan S2466N boards that have been running in 2U rackmounts for approx. 1 year on average. I don't think we've lost a motherboard yet. The most frequent problems have been cpu-fans, followed by hard drives. - John On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 jmmckel@attglobal.net wrote: > Folks, > > My usual hardware supplier has an outstanding service warranty: bad > parts pass replacement parts in teh mail for the first year. They no > longer like to sell Tyan dual AMD processor systems, but will if the > customer is willing to deal directly with Tyan when a motherboard > crashes... They clain 33% failure rate in the first year. > > I know there are lots of happy AMD dual processor Tyan board users out > there... Who has had problems in the last year? > > [ A dual Tyan with 2-2000MP's and about 1/gig of memory can be had for > about $900, while a dual 2.4Xeon/Supermicro with 1/2 Gig of memory is > about $1200. Maybe on price performance this isn't so bad. I've never > had a bad SuperMicro mobo out of 4.] > > Regards, > > John McKelvey