Beowulf digest, Vol 1 #942 - 11 msgs

[Richard Fryer]

Earlier this week, dual Xeon MB's were asked about that support AGP
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Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 12:18:09 -0400
From: Jeff Layton <jeffrey.b.layton at lmco.com>
Subject: Rumors of E7500 or GC with AGP?
Reply-to: jeffrey.b.layton at lmco.com
Organization: Lockheed-Martin Aeronautics Company

All of the dual Xeon motherboards I've seen that use either
the E7500 or GC chipsets don't have AGP. I'm looking for a
good dual Xeon board that has AGP for a desktop. Has anyone
heard any rumors of a board coming out with either chipset but
with AGP?
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For a recent bid, I proposed the ASUS PR-DLSW - that includes AGP Pro.  This
is the 'Workstation' version of the promising server-style PR-DLS that has
supposedly been available for 6 weeks (though I haven't seen it at my usual
suppliers).  Asus sales 'suggests' that the DLSW will be shipping in 3-4
weeks.  It WAS on the drop down menu list at Asus for the 603 socket boards,
but that link disappeared just today (perhaps due to a bug - several parts
of their website have been 'broken for some time).

There are several 860 based boards as others have mentioned - the Supermicro
P4DC6+, the iWill DP400, and the Tyan S2603 are all candidates from vendors
we've had good luck with.

The Asus info is still on their website as of this moment - at
http://usa.asus.com/mb/socket603/pr-dlsw/overview.htm
And at http://usa.asus.com/mb/socket603/pr-dlsw/specification.htm you can
see a bit more detail.  It appears to me that the USB on the Serverworks
Champion south bridge is USB 1.0 - in case that's important to you -
http://www.serverworks.com/products/GCHE.html

I have some of the PR-DLSW's backordered if you are interested in a system
bid - - - *grin*

Richard Fryer
Beomax, Inc.