If any of you have this board I would be interested in hearing your thoughts, especially on how it stacks up against the tyan tiger.
Thanks for the time guys,
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its jsut hitting stores now..but jsut based on what it has, and the reputation of ASUS . I’ll bet its a supirier board.
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They had a preview of it I think…
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try www.2cpu.com, they have a link to an article, sounds quite good. but there are more boards to come (MSI, Gigabyte, Abit, Epox)
CU Sanostol
probably ordering this board for a freind who I’m building a system for.
so, if he wants it , I’ll let you know what i think..
really cool overclocking bios with a fail safe in case the CPU gets to hot so it deosn’t damage..
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Just about anything can be better than a tyan tiger. Tyan makes doggy poo quality stuff.
I’d go with the asus board; or the MSI board thats coming out; or the gigabyte board; if not for a quality brand; than for a later revision of the 760mp chipset.
That Ole Russell
I’m really interested in this board as well…what I’m wondering is how hot it gets and if it’s safe for production. The board has a fail safe if it gets hot, but how often would that happen as a 3D workstation, or even a renderfarm machine?
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Hhehe; if he’s really your friend you won’t do that. I built one for my friend; it locks up constantly. I contacted tyan support; thats the worst bunch of guys I’ve ever delt with. IBM’s help desk has more competant people.
If your really stuck on tyan (even though Asus, gigabyte, and MSI all have dual AMD boards) DO follow their hardware compatability list. At least as far as RAM goes. Thats about the only thing I can imagine it being since I know the rest of his hardware is good
That Ole Russell
no..i ment the ASUS board.. not the tyan …
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We have a dual AMD with Tyan K7 board, it did give lot of problem for my technician while it set up, need to do some patches and has to follow exactly the parts they required. It ended up we had to order the ram and power supply from state.
But hey, after everything set up it is Rock Solid!! NEVER CRASHED running Maya and Cinema 4D since 2 to 3 months ago!!
If this asus is good then I might get one for myself at home, but heard of it’s quality has dropped during this 2 years, but I might be wrong.
I’m not sure about the dual processor board, but I have the single proc version (A7M-266) & it’s incredibly stable. Even before I got some extra cooling for my box, with temperatures reaching danger point, the board held steady.
The only problem I’ve had to date is that my Voodoo3 card (for second monitor - pallettes/etc) doesn’t seat properly in the 2rd pci slot for some odd reason, but is happy to slot into any of the others.
I love asus boards..thye nmake it a snap to overclock , and dealing with the bios is simple.
so I’m excited about the board/.
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Suonlim; yeah but the problem is; what about when its time to upgrade? Sure it might handle the CPU’s; and the memory (asuming its tyan qualified, it pretty much has to be); and of course hard drives. But various SCSI adapters; HBA’s; network cards; and of course video cards make the board unstable. This happened to me; went from a gf2 to a gf3 and the board ceased to function.
Besides; the asus and MSI versions support AGP pro, so you can enjoy the fireGL4 or a wildcat; or whatever floats your boat hehe..
That Ole Russell
yeah, I agree with your upgrade issue, that is what exactly the problem we have with our Intergraph ZX10, the board is also a Tyan, with intergrated LSI logix scsi and 3 com network, it is now keep coming out the error of sym_u3 (scsi error) and crash very often after upgraded to Window 2000 last year. Intergraph ended up going to replace the motherboard after a few months trial of different version of updated drivers.
When we do the research for this new Tyan K7 for our new 3D workstatin, we feel safer as long as they use Adaptec Scsi rather than LSI, and to eliminate the imcompatibility in the future parts, we had beef up the ram to 2 Gig and 72 gig of scsi hard disk. So I expect it will serve well for at least 2 to 3 years and then will utilise it as a internal email server or just a back up rendering machine.
suonlim