NVidia chipsets (was Re: Any experience with "Asus A8N-SLi"or"Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI" mobos?)

[Peter Wemm]

David O'Brien wrote:

>On Wed, Feb 16, 2005 at 12:14:14PM +1100, Jan Mikkelsen wrote:
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>>David O'Brien wrote:
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>>>>(Incidentally, does anyone know anything about the HP DL385, or the HP 
>>>>Opteron blades, the BL25p and BL35p?)
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>>>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.
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>>I am also interested in the chipsets they use.
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>>I believe the DL145 uses the AMD 8000 chipset,
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>The HP DL145 uses the AMD 8100 chipset.  The HP DL145 is an AMD design.
>The HP DL585 also uses the AMD 8100 chipset, with the DL585 being a
>Compaq design.  So I expect the DL385 to use the AMD 8100 chipset also.
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Yes, the DL385 is very similar to the 380, but with the 8000 series 
chipset on a compaq flavored motherboard.  It is a very sweet design 
from what I briefly saw of it..

-Peter