Tyan Thunder K8QS Pro (S4882) Released

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » June 1st, 2004, 5:56 pm

Well, this quad Opteron king motherboard has been released.
It is an improvement over the first Tyan Opteron quad because of the memory capability.
The old one had only 10 RAM slots for 20GB of RAM. This one has 16 RAM slots (4 per CPU) for 32GB or RAM.

More here.

Of course Tyan has also released a rackmount to come with it.
More on the rackmount here.

Post by **ccb056** » June 2nd, 2004, 11:28 pm

30GB of RAM? That's more RAM than I have used hard drive space.

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » June 3rd, 2004, 12:30 am

I would love to have about 100 of these for SETI.
That would be 400 Opteron 850s (each at 2.4GHz).
960GHz of AMD64 power!

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 3rd, 2004, 5:35 pm

Just think, Dual core opterons are supposed to work with existing motherboards. That would be like 8 opterons

Can you sense the power? THe onboard memory controler makes this possible i believe. If the memory controler was still in the north bridge a new chipset would probably be required. There are so many benefits of the integrated memory controler.

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 3rd, 2004, 6:06 pm

Quad Opti.. The power of that could blow anyone away

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 3rd, 2004, 6:24 pm

In a large thanks to the HTT

HTT really flexes it muscle in MP configurations, thats why the xeons just can't compete.

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 3rd, 2004, 6:29 pm

Xeons are on top in the server technology world buddy...

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 3rd, 2004, 6:40 pm

what rock have you been under? LOL Are you referring to sales again? Because when it comes to performance/ technology the opteron kills the Xeon.

http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1982&p=1
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1935

Make sure to read the Final thoughts.

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » June 4th, 2004, 12:44 am

Well, considering Opterons can go up to 16-way per motherboard with the new nForce 3 250Gb Ultra Pro, dual cores on that is 32-way.
Also, dual-cores come 2005 (expect before K9s which come mid-2005).

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 4th, 2004, 5:48 am

http://www.techreport.com/reviews/2004q ... dex.x?pg=1
http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=487
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000275

a few more articles to back up the opteron superiority to the Xeon

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 4th, 2004, 6:27 am

eww another amd lover

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » June 4th, 2004, 1:47 pm

Can you even admit that the Opteron 250 outperforms the top Xeon DP or the Opteron 850 outperforms the Xeon MP?

monte84 gave benchmarks of both.

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 4th, 2004, 2:46 pm

Neo-Tebow2000 wrote:eww another amd lover

maybe just a little, well yeah. For the time being anyway, Intel just does not have a good product out right now, there is just no reason to even consider Intel ATM, with the 3700/3800+'s out. I base my buying decisions on who has the best hardware, and right now that is AMD.

Your the Intel lover

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 4th, 2004, 4:39 pm

Yes, i am the intel lover

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 4th, 2004, 7:21 pm

why not be the technology lover? Intel is kind of lacking in this department as of now. Just what is keeping you with them? The name? Its what you grew up hearing about, that you HAD to have Intel (i know i heard alot of that).

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 4th, 2004, 7:24 pm

They wont be lacking.. And you cannot tell the proformance difference

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 4th, 2004, 7:27 pm

Neo-Tebow2000 wrote:They wont be lacking.. And you cannot tell the proformance difference

Sure you can, you feel you wallet being lighter

With intel.

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » June 4th, 2004, 7:32 pm

monte84 wrote:Sure you can, you feel you wallet being lighter With intel.

That is exactly what I was thinking.

You can either buy an Intel Pentium 4 3.4GHz EE, or you can save $200 and get the fastest CPU around, the Athlon 64 FX-53 (Socket 939).

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 4th, 2004, 7:35 pm

I would go with the more reliable one, Intel

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » June 5th, 2004, 12:07 am

Yeah, 75C in a water cooling system is reliable. Talk about burn-outs. AMD CPUs last a lot longer than Intel's since they are cooler.

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 5th, 2004, 6:25 am

Neo-Tebow2000 wrote:I would go with the more reliable one, Intel

there is nothing unreliable with an AMD CPU.

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » June 5th, 2004, 4:16 pm

I trust a company who has been in the buisness longer and is trusted by most americans

monte84 · Post by **monte84** » June 5th, 2004, 5:49 pm

Neo-Tebow2000 wrote:I trust a company who has been in the buisness longer and is trusted by most americans

AMD has been in the buissness just as long (making them for Intel at one point, heh. Trusted by most Americans, well, considering most Americans are uneducated in computer, how would they know? The go to a store or buy from Dell, who just happen to mostly use Intel (or in Dell/gateway's case, only Intel) That hardly makes them a better company. Give facts, not just a statement you think of

Have you ever owned an AMD system?

YEP · Post by **YEP** » August 24th, 2004, 11:14 am

Doesn't help to throw with stones when you both live in a house of glass.

Now AMD had a history of getting quite hot. Later then Intell took over with the prescott-series of CPU's.

The main thing for all of us (I guess ) is getting some nice working HW at a reasonable price.

Any choice you make depends largely on USE/ PRICE/ PERFORMANCE (USE ~ private/work/server/critical use (24/7/365) )

Aggressor Prime · Post by **Aggressor Prime** » August 24th, 2004, 9:13 pm

Use = SETI
Price = $500 per system
Performance = Look at my sig. for completed work units.
Use Time = 24/7/365 (Always.)

The_Man · Post by **The_Man** » August 25th, 2004, 2:18 am

the possibility of having dual core 4 way opteron mobo with 32gb ram does make me drewl(ah yes my crappy spelling) and i'm an intel lover. If only intel could at least get someone to do 4 way with there processors(not saying it will outperform but will give intel something to fight with) maybe create some kinda desktop version of PM but uses more power to get better performance and then make that 4-way

Tebow2000 · Post by **Tebow2000** » September 21st, 2004, 1:53 am

Intel dosent have the neep for quad cpu.. And it isnt Intel that develops this, it is the motherboard manufactor. Intel only makes the chip

Nolano · Post by **Nolano** » November 23rd, 2004, 11:54 pm

and even if they tried to make one, it would burn down the city iin which its being tested.

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Tyan Thunder K8QS Pro (S4882) Released

Tyan Thunder K8QS Pro (S4882) Released

Well you're both acting like idiots now