I have this same board. I found Tyan’s mounting system and AMD’s OEM heatsink retainers with all that plastic to be cheap-ass feeling.

I’ve since switched to the Intel Woodcrest/Conroe design, and never looked back. Its faster, lower power, and you can actually buy them easily whereas the availability of the Opteron Socket F / 2200 gear is hard to find.

Also, even with boxed processors, AMD sucks at warranty fulfillment. They never seem to have the same model/stepping of CPUs that broke to replace with under warranty. This is especially bad in the 8xx/8xxxx series, where getting warranty fulfillment for me has been impossible.

I’ve also written off Tyan and completely switched to Supermicro and Intel reference servers.

Submitted by Mick Russom (not verified) on 2007.07.28 @ 10:39. |

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