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This review has been a long time coming, in fact, i had the board before the first Thunder K7s were shipping. Why the delay? Don't ask.

This board wasn't made to be popular, or sell a lot of units. It was made to work, plain and simple, and it does a fantastic job. This year we'll have at least three dual platforms in production, and while the P3 isn't the fastest, it's still a contender.

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12/10/2001 04:50 AM: The Workstation Guide: Part 1... by Jim
Ace's Hardware is easily one of my favorite technical websites on the internet (along with Overclockers.com - All Hail Ed). If they decide to post something you can be assured that you'll actually lea...

08/18/2001 02:14 AM: Workstation Battle Royale @ Ace's Hardware! by Jim
Ace's Hardware is at it again. This time they've decided to pit two rather bad workstations against one another. Would you like to see Dual Xeons vs. Dual Athlon MPs @ Ace's? I would. Most of the time...

08/15/2001 09:52 PM: Dual Pentium 3 vs. Pentium 4: Workstation Apps... by Jim
Kevin tracked this article down for us. InQuest has an article up comparing Professional/Workstation application performance in Windows 2000. The competitors? A dual p3 machine squares off against two...

06/05/2001 01:42 AM: Dell Brings the Precision 530 Workstation... by Jim
Us enthusiasts sure do enjoy building our own boxes piece by piece. However, when we're at work, we generally rely on the big boys to outfit and support the workstations and servers we need to run 24/...

02/28/2001 04:11 PM: Compaq AMD MP Workstation/Server by duke
An attentive reader sent me a couple of interesting tidbits. Ace's Hardware has heard that Compaq will be releasing a Dual AMD workstation based on the AMD760MP chipset in Q2. Also, ViaHardware has ...

02/23/2001 07:36 PM: Dual Processor Workstations: Super Highway or Dead End? by J0rdan
Mitchell Robinson sent this link in. EarthWeb.com is talking about dual processor workstations. They have decided to speculate whether SMP is really all that and a bag of chips (mmm, chips) or a Dead ...

12/09/2000 09:28 PM: Workstation Graphics Card Anyone? by J0rdan
The tw34k1n fr34ks (forgive me) over at Tweak3d take a look at Matrox's G450. I'd buy one of these bad boys, but I'm going to be running all my Towers of Power (tm) through a KVM, so nVidia 2d will pr...

04/27/2000 04:24 PM: TurboLinux 6.0 Workstation by J0rdan
The boys over at Cpureview got their hands on a shiny, new copy of TurboLinux 6.0 Workstation and put it through the paces. I like the thought of having a distribution geared specifically to the deskt...

Fr0st Registered User Posts: 493 Joined: 2001-01-05

#13577 Posted on: 01/29/2002 11:59 PM Dual Tualatins, the new P3TDLE version of this board, and FreeBSD... Makes me salivate thinking about it. Any chance you can run some drive benchmarks, or has the board already returned home? Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

Kampf Pixelated Posts: 553 Joined: 2000-04-21

#13578 Posted on: 01/30/2002 01:03 AM I'm still using the board, but with the exact same loadout that is in the review. I don't have any faster drives than the 34GXPs available, and RAID didn't seem to want to work. What were you interested in? A couple Apple products and a bizarre ASUS S479 box.

knoahbear SMP Bassman Posts: 863 Joined: 2000-06-04

#13579 Posted on: 01/30/2002 01:46 AM One of the cool features of this board is the 66/64 pci slots - those could allow for a pretty pumped storage subsystem. The promise TX2 cards run at 66mhz and take advantage of this bus. I'm currently seeing a very noticeable jump (from 33mhz performance) using 66mhz slots on my A7M266-D. The first IDE raid setup I tried was a fast-track 66 and 2 20gb 34gxp's. That also failed...

EM SMP Bassman Posts: 4115 Joined: 2000-09-04

#13580 Posted on: 01/30/2002 02:00 AM Kampf, I have a Promise TX4 (66mhz PCI) that is not in use in any of my systems right now. I would be willing to let you use it in testing if you are interested. LMK Ed Political Correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical, liberal minority and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. [URL="http://www.heatware.com/u/4993"]Heat[/URL]

Fr0st Registered User Posts: 493 Joined: 2001-01-05

#13581 Posted on: 01/30/2002 02:00 AM The usual Sandra/HDTach/Clibench drive benchmarks. Just raw throughput. I'm curious how much speed it squeezes out of UDMA/33. Nothing is true, everything is permitted.

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