Athlon MP mobos beginning to come down in prices

[stall6g]

AMD SMPing is beginning to get into the more affordable range.

Athlon MP mobo (http://store.yahoo.com/enpc/tyans2thunk7.html)

[phil]

WOW!! that's a good price...I can pick that mobo up locally here in the UK for £530 ($751USD). I gotta get me one of those :)

[Ciccio]

Let me know if you do phil, I'll have one too and we can sort out shipping.

[phil]

I think I am going to wait for Abit/Iwill to sort out a dual board before upgrading. The Tyan has a load of stuff that I just don't need and lacks the stuff that I do :rolleyes:

[Ciccio]

Fair enough.

It's a shame it doesn't have 4 gig memory capacity, otherwise I reckon I could have swindled work into letting me build one for them :D

[MechCD]

I hope that $741 for the mobo AND cpu....... $741 for a mobo is well... Expensive maybe?

[MechCD]

Der oops, the link says 249, thats better

[Martyn]

Originally posted by phil
WOW!! that's a good price...I can pick that mobo up locally here in the UK for £530 ($751USD). I gotta get me one of those :)

Eh? the price tag there says $249.00!

Looks like a damned nice board though. Be nice in a rack :)

[MechCD]

Phil, you been smokin too much silicon in the lounge? :D

[phil]

No guys....I know the link says $249 and that is in the US presumably, but here in the UK that mobo is £530 ($751). I was highlighting just how much more expensive they are in the UK.....Oh never mind :rolleyes:

[MechCD]

Der, I'm glad I don't buy puter parts in the UK, or I would only have half of a system instead of 4 :p

Is everything like that, or just the new stuff? What would a 1ghz tbird cost you? Just curious.

Darn taxes :D

[SkzDaLimit]

Originally posted by tril0Byte


Eh? the price tag there says $249.00!

Looks like a damned nice board though. Be nice in a rack :)

Mmmmmm $249 for a dually Athlon. Though nice, I think I am going to hold out for a little cheaper price. Maybe 200 or a little less with provoke me to finally get one.

[stall6g]

I'm waiting for one that is a little cheaper also with o/cing abilities.

[zhotfire]

Glad to see the price is falling a bit but it's still too much. I agree with phil, the board needs to swap a few components. Get rid of the scsi and go with the less expensive hpt370. Dump those i-don't-have-anything-to-put-in-them pci slots and give me an agp pro slot instead. In fact dump all the extra on-board stuff and you'd have the perfect board! Lean, mean and priced right! ABIT, are you listening? :(

[phil]

Originally posted by MechCD
Der, I'm glad I don't buy puter parts in the UK, or I would only have half of a system instead of 4 :p

Is everything like that, or just the new stuff? What would a 1ghz tbird cost you? Just curious.

Darn taxes :D



Just putting together the following parts:

MSI K7T266 DDR Mobo
T-Bird 1Ghz (266)
2x256Mb Crucial PC2100
Matrox G450
Netgear FA311 NIC
Case/PS

All for £396UK ($559US) - I have a CDrom/hard disk already and I will be installing Red Hat 7.1. I am certain I will get ~1.5Ghz from this baby and should see some nice mem bandwidth.

[MechCD]

So its kinda like the new stuff is way overpriced?

[goldie]

Phil,
Let us know how that board works out for you. Some of the 1.0gb t-birds are sweet. Just got one up and running in my MSI KT7-Turbo @ 1.63 air cooled. Lots of luck...goldie:D

[wbierman]

Some of you have missed the point. Tyan designed that board for one purpose. To fit in a 1U box. Most server development is in that 1U area. That is where the market is right now. AMD wants a piece of that "appliance" market. Putting that board in a tower or 4U rack mount is just a waste. All of you are right in that it is too much money for the tower or 4U box!

But for the 1U... it's HOT!

[phil]

Originally posted by goldie
Phil,
Let us know how that board works out for you. Some of the 1.0gb t-birds are sweet. Just got one up and running in my MSI KT7-Turbo @ 1.63 air cooled. Lots of luck...goldie:D


Hi Goldie, I am now running this mobo and RAM in my main linux box. I am using the AXIA Y 1Ghz at 1575MHz (water cooled) and it is running sweet :D (current uptime 3 days and 4 hours 100% load).

I bought another 1Ghz T-Bird to go in my Iwill KK266-R...it was an AXIA, but not a Y or K and is running fine at 1500 aircooled. I hope I get such good results with dual Athlon MP's later this year.

[Dustin]

WOW! I never realized how much money stuff is there. I have a new respect for your total Mhz.:)