AMD 64bit-powered Network performance

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 04:57:18PM -0400, Mark Lane wrote:
> I use to sell these boxes. Comparing that ASUS to that Tyan is not
> really a fair comparison. The Tyan listed is a Workstation class board
> and the ASUS is a highend Desktop.
> 
> BTW unless something has changed in the last 4 months Tyan's customer
> support, firmware and troubleshooting has gone way down hill over the
> last 18 months. If you want a really good AMD motherboard you need to
> look at the SuperMicro A+ line.
> 
> http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/
> 
> The Broadcom ServerWorks Chipset versions for AMD is very good.
> 
> I'm a little surprised that the intel gigE did that much better than
> the Marvel Yukon. It could be that Tyan has it on a PCIe or PCI-X bus
> and not PCI 32. I wouldn't be surprised if ASUS used a 32 bit bus for
> their gigE because it is only Desktop Chipset.  As I said it isn't a
> fair comparison.

Well I know the marvel on my asus board has a 66mhz 32bit PCI link.
Some newer asus boards have PCIe links to their marvel chips instead.

Len Sorensen
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