Take any two: motherboard performance, compatibility, value

[Josip Loncaric]

Douglas Eadline wrote:
> 
> We have Linux working on Serverworks systems. We are still testing, but
> our dual PIII Cu-733 with 1GB PC-133 SDRAM(ecc) gave pretty good stream
> numbers.

Thanks for the info!  I dug around some more, and learned that
Serverworks is kind of stingy with documentation (see
http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week15/0768.html). 
This may imply some difficulties in fully exploiting its nicer features
(64-bit PCI bus at 66MHz, etc.)

I got/found the following references to motherboards using Serverworks
chipsets:

http://www.tyan.com/html/pr_thunders_22400.html (see Thunder 2500)
http://www.tyan.com/products/html/s1867.html (bad link?)
http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/RCC_LE/370DL3.htm
http://www.supermicro.com/PRODUCT/MotherBoards/RCC_LE/370DLE.htm

ASL builds a dual Pentium III Linux workstation (presumably using the
Tyan Thunder 2500 board):

http://www.aslab.com/contents/workstations/Marquis-C250S.html

The Serverworks option is interesting, but I'd need more info before
buying a system of this type.

Sincerely,
Josip

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