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The Inquirer brings word that Supermicro's AMD Opteron-based boards were quite a hit at a recent system builder's summit.

Here in Monaco, the centrepiece of the AMD display was the Opteron Supermicro board, much rumoured, much discussed, and finally here in the flesh.

More information is available here.

04/29/2005 01:35 PM: Supermicro Unexcited about AMD Opteron Systems? by duke
The Inquirer has posted a response from a reader who had a bad experience when trying to purchase AMD Opteron-based servers from Supermicro. They didn't seem to want to take his money. Thanks for taki...

04/06/2005 06:29 PM: Supermicro + Opteron = Finally?!? by Hooz
A sharp forum reader posted this l'Inq that seems to confirm Supermicro's entry into the Opteron arena.According to page 33 of the lengthy PDF prepared by Fermi Labs, "a Supermicro Opteron board ...

01/28/2005 03:25 PM: Supermicro "Super Quiet" Analyzed @ 2CPU.com! by Jim_
Supermicro recently sent me their latest SuperWorkstation, the 7044A-82. While the hardware components were quite similar to the last Supermicro system that I tested, this had a new feature aimed at k...

06/07/2004 04:03 PM: Supermicro X5DAL-TG2 reviewed @ Tweak.dk by Jim_
The guys over at Tweak.dk have thrown together a review of Supermicro's X5DAL-TG2. Anyone in need of a dual Xeon board? You can check out their review over here. Of course, Babelfish will be required...

04/26/2004 01:02 PM: Supermicro Demos E7520-based Motherboard by Jim_
X-Bit has a picture posted of Supermicro's upcoming E7520-based motherboard which supports PCI Express. The X6DH8-G2 mainboard from Supermicro is based on the E7520 chipset also known as Intel Lindenh...

04/10/2003 03:54 PM: Serverworks and Supermicro to Support AMD Opteron! by Jim
After quite a news drought we seemed to have hit the motherload this morning. Mikey over at The Inquirer is reporting that two ardent Intel-only supports have decided to jump on the Opteron bandwagon;...

02/25/2003 12:41 AM: Supermicro and Itanium 2 by Hooz
I haven't had the opportunity to even lay eyes on an Itanium machine yet, but from the looks of it, Supermicro is poised to launch a line of Itanium 2 supporting motherboards and systems. Here's a sni...

01/30/2003 12:31 AM: Supermicro joins Tyan with ATX sized dual Xeon boards by dadmin
Supermicro have released a couple of standard ATX sized dual Xeon boards that will spark your interest if Tyan's Tiger i7500 appealed to you: The Super X5DAL-TG and the Super X5DAL-G. The difference b...

10/07/2002 06:17 PM: Supermicro Announces (More) New Boards by Hooz
More from Supermicro this morning, this time in the "low(cost) end": P4DPL-M Cost-Effective Serverboard Available now: features include support for dual Intel Xeon processors up to 2.80GHz ...

10/06/2002 04:02 PM: Supermicro Announces New Boards and Servers by Hooz
I little birdie dropped this nugget in my inbox this morning. It appears that Supermicro is launching a serious attack on the dual Xeon market, this time they are announcing no less than nine new moth...

opus13 misanthrope. Posts: 1574 Joined: 2002-04-05

#36320 Posted on: 05/12/2005 08:18 PM oooh, look! satan bought ice skates!

sAvAgE69 Unregistered

#36321 Posted on: 05/12/2005 11:06 PM oooh, look! satan bought ice skates! I couldn't agree more! Supermicro makes excellent products. let's hope that quality continues in their AMD line of motherboards

duraid Registered User Posts: 378 Joined: 2002-03-31

#36322 Posted on: 05/13/2005 11:59 AM Originally posted by duke The Inquirer brings word that Supermicro's AMD Opteron-based boards were quite a hit at a recent system builder's summit. You can find out more about Supermicro opteron motherboards e.g. here: http://www.amdboard.com/supermicro_h8dce.html Good to see Supermicro finally selling this stuff, but it doesn't look like anything special. No surprise there I guess, Supermicro are well known for making "vanilla" machines without fancy coloured PCBs, overclocking stuff etc. But there's not one feature that you can't already get in an opteron system that's already shipping. (At least with their intel systems, you can get goodies like IPMI which the _ultra-low-end_ vendors don't offer because it adds a couple of hundred $$$ to the system.) Edit: So why, then, is the Supermicro system a hit? Looks more like a taiwanese OEM group playing catch-up to me. I don't suppose anyone else - and I mean anyone else - any other person, website, whatever, could corroborate the inquirer story? It's been a year or more since I last went to a big tech-fest, but when something is the "star of the show", it normally gets a little bit more attention than just being put on a desk and having a brochure stuck on top of it.

rmn oh my, it's huge! Posts: 5894 Joined: 2002-01-26

#36323 Posted on: 05/13/2005 07:56 PM Because it's on top of a table and it's completely naked apart from that sexy brochure. RMN ~~~

duraid Registered User Posts: 378 Joined: 2002-03-31

#36324 Posted on: 05/14/2005 11:04 AM Originally posted by rmn Because it's on top of a table and it's completely naked apart from that sexy brochure. It would've been nicer if they, err, "opened her up".

B.Slisk CC Cowboy Posts: 1457 Joined: 2001-12-14

#36325 Posted on: 05/15/2005 03:32 AM Originally posted by duraid It would've been nicer if they, err, "opened her up". Now that sound's a bit to much like guro to me. If you can lie on the floor without holding on, then you're not drunk enough.

mickdunde Registered User Posts: 716 Joined: 2001-08-17

#36326 Posted on: 05/19/2005 01:10 PM monarch has it in stock, see here PoD | mickdunde

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