Re: CCL:AMD Dual Processor Boxes

[John Bushnell <bushnell $#at#$ chem.ucsb.edu>]

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 $#at#$ 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