Help! Dual mobos?

[Guest]

Hi guys. I need a big advise/list for dual motherboards. Can anyone give at least 2 motherboards (best, latest) for AMD and for Intel processors. Asus, Abit, Gigabyte, Tyan,etc?

Thank you very much.

 

[Grizely1]

You mean a motherboard for dual processors?

Well, there are no AMD dual processor motherboards at the time, but Intel has TONS....

 

[Guest]

Yes motherboard with dual CPU support. So what dual Intel CPU supporting mobos we have today? Thank you beforehand

 

[Guest]

My favorite dual processor motherboards are from SuperMicro. I have two dual processor systems build on Supermicro boards (one a dual PPro 200 and another a dual PII 450 BX) and have had good luck with them.
Supermicro boards are easy to setup, but do not provide features for overclocking.
<A HREF="http://www.supermicro.com" target="_new">http://www.supermicro.com</A>

Tyan also makes a good selection of dual processor boards, but I was steered away from them years ago after talking with someone who built systems for SAG Electronics who said that they had some overheating problems with them and stopped using them. I haven't revisited them since, though that was probably an issue with just one model, or maybe disinformation alltogether.

I wish AMD would get with it soon and release some dual processor chipsets/boards. Then I could finally consider them. Even if the Thunderbirds can outrender a PIII, a dual processor system is so responsive that once you get used to it, it's hard to go back.

 

[Unolocogringo]

I only use asus boards so check out the P2B-D dual pentium2 or pentium3 up to 800 i believe maybe higher with a bios update. hope this helps

 

[Guest]

As the neither Intel P4 or AMD platforms will support SMP in the near future, your abvious choice will be to go with Intel´s PIII Coppermine or PIII Xeon.

Boards for 100MHz FSB, based on the BX/GX chipsets have been around for almost 2 years, the SuperMicro P6 DGE (IDE) or DGU (U2 SCSI) for PIII or the S2 variants for Xeons, are extremely reliable, stable boards w/ the 440GX, supporting up to 1GHz PIII or 700MHz Xeons, memory support goes up to 2 Gig.

If you are really in "big spender" mood you could go for the Intel 840 boards w/ dual RAMBUS channels and FSB 133, but performance gains are abysmal compared to the high cost of RAMBUS modules, again SuperMicro offers a nice board, the PIII DRx.

If you are looking for reasonably priced chipset choices for 133MHz FSB PIII or even Quad Xeons, there is currently no alternative to the ServerWorks (formerly Reliance) chipsets, although only the newest boards with the HE-SL chipset will offer AGP support. Again, SuperMicro has excellent offerings (370 DLx or the announced 370 DE6 w/ AGP), Asus offers a nice board w/ on-board ATI, CUR-DLS.

Tyan, Iwill or AMI would be additional choices, but I have little current experience there, past encounters have not been too favourable.