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#805 - Tyan K8SE Motherboard |
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Written by Zach Jeffers
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Monday, 16 April 2007 |
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Conclusion:
All said and done, Tyan has a great board here. With dual processors and support for 16gigs of RAM, the Tyan board is ready for any computing task, whether it is a workstation environment, rendering machine, or web server. The nForce Professional 2200 series chipset proves it’s strength and through a week of hammering burn-in tests, never skipped a beat! The combination of dual PCI-E x16 slots and PCI-X slots provides a pretty beefy combination. Some might say that this is older technology, but hey, unless you have the hefty pocket change it takes to buy an AMD Socket-F or Intel Core 2 Quad Xeon system, this will fit into any IT budget for solid performance and straight forward reliability. The flexibility of this board, which by the way supports Dual-Core Opterons, is just about endless. With three Ethernet jacks, including two being Gigabit, this board could easily facilitate a cluster for any need. With our experience with this board has definitely been Kickass and we are proud to say that this board will be home in the new 3dGameMan.com dedicated server! Our special thanks go out to Tyan for their continued support of 3dGameMan.com and their sample of the K8SE motherboard for review.
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- Commercial Reliability
- Lots of Expandability
- Seven Fan Headers!
- Dual PCI-E and PCI-X
- TARO Expansion
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- No RAID5 support
- RAID not native to *nix
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