NVidia chipsets (was Re: Any experience with "AsusA8N-SLi"or"Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos?)

[Scott Long]

Astrodog wrote:

> On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 12:14:14 +1100, Jan Mikkelsen
> <janm at transactionware.com> wrote:
> 
>>David O'Brien wrote:
>>
>>>>(Incidentally, does anyone know anything about the HP DL385, or the HP
>>>>Opteron blades, the BL25p and BL35p?)
>>>
>>>The *5 machines are opteron versions of the Xeon offerings.  See the *0
>>>Xeon offerings to get a feel for the specs of the box.
>>>I *believe* the DL385 uses the DL380 chassis.
>>
>>I am also interested in the chipsets they use.
>>
>>I believe the DL145 uses the AMD 8000 chipset, but I can't find any
>>information on the newer servers.  I was concerned that they might use
>>nVidia chipsets, like the new workstation.  However, on rereading the
>>press release, they only tout the nVidia chipset for the workstation, so
>>the servers probably use something much more boring!
>>
>>Regards,
>>
>>Jan.
> 
> 
> I'm not sure anyone but AMD makes SMP-capible chipsets for Opteron.

The literature for the Via K8T890 claims that it supports up to 2 CPUs,
but I've only seen single-CPU boards based on it.  In reality, since the
bridge between the northbridge and the CPU is HyperTransport, the
support for SMP comes more from that motherboard maker than from the
chipset maker.

Scott