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what is great manufacturer of dual amd mp motherboard or a dual amd duron or thunderbird motherboard. i am thinking of getting one soon its that time year to upgrade my desktop and get rid of my old one.

Tyan is usually considered the leader in the dual CPU mobo arena. I've been running a Tiger MPX for 8 months now and the board has been solid. The reviews I read said this board was the best at the time (don't know what's come out recently).

The only downside to these boards is that they all have separate USB cards because of a problem with the chipset's southbridge. But they do ALL come with them. The only beef against my board was that Tyan didn't include a USB 2.0 card (like I care :rolleyes .

may i ask why you want to spend the extra $$$ on a dual setup? besides the "cool factor" and pure geekiness , what will you be using it for to benefit from SMP?

(no offense meant...just curious)

SMP rigs are good when running databases or heavily used application servers....or SMP enabled programs such as Photoshop...but for normal use (including gaming), the performance benefit (if any) is not justified.

i would bet my money on a high-end single tbird setup with the xtra $$$$ spent on faster scsi drives and vid card...and that system should smoke a SMP setup.

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Tyan is usually considered the leader in the dual CPU mobo arena. I've been running a Tiger MPX for 8 months now and the board has been solid. The reviews I read said this board was the best at the time (don't know what's come out recently).

Tyan's dual Athlon boards have an issue where Geforce3 and 4 cards will suffer nasty screen distortion. Apparently it's a motherboard grounding problem that requires soldering stuff to the card to fix.

The only downside to these boards is that they all have separate USB cards because of a problem with the chipset's southbridge. But they do ALL come with them.

Newer production boards don't have that bug, it was only in the rev. B1 southbridge. Any board with the B2 southbridge has a fully functional USB controller.

i decide to save me couple bucks and just keep my current motherboard and just buy another pentium 3 cpu to make dualie pentium 3. I plan on making it server on network its going to act as router, ftp server, trying to run small personal site. My favortie run setti on it.

Originally posted by b-man1
may i ask why you want to spend the extra $$$ on a dual setup? besides the "cool factor" and pure geekiness , what will you be using it for to benefit from SMP?

(no offense meant...just curious)

SMP rigs are good when running databases or heavily used application servers....or SMP enabled programs such as Photoshop...but for normal use (including gaming), the performance benefit (if any) is not justified.

i would bet my money on a high-end single tbird setup with the xtra $$$$ spent on faster scsi drives and vid card...and that system should smoke a SMP setup.

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That's exactly what I do. Dual 1600+ MP and all the fast scsi stuff you were just talking about.

Thanks for the update Jim. I hadn't looked at any of those issues since I bought my board in February.