Dual T-Birds and Durons

[murdmath]

I'm not sure if this is the place to post this, but I do it with TA in mind. Has anyone dug anything up on any Dual Processor AMD Motherboards, or even some Quad Processor MB's? They could really give TA some much needed computing power!

Murdmath

 

[Adul]

I here by the end of q1 we will start seeing something on them

 

[MadMerc]

gigabyte and tyan have boards slated for release at the end of q1

personally i will be waiting til the end of q2 so that the boards have tested and have time to mature a little, also more choice by then

 

[JHutch]

I'm waiting with baited breath for the Duron equivalent of the BP6... Could you imagine what a crack rack of cheap dualies could do?

JHutch

 

[murdmath]

I think I would be even more interested in some quad boards, but I doubt we will see any of those.

Murdmath

 

[Athlex]

Dual Durons goooood...

Just bagged a K7T Pro2A yesterday (turns out Atacom is about a 5 minute drive from where I work), so I'll have my first single duron cracking as soon as my CPU comes in.
atx

 

[JHutch]

Just recently upgraded by P3-450 to a Thunderbird 1GHz, and I have to say, these babies ROCK!

And at just $275 for chip and MB, it wasn't a huge dent in the pocket...

JHutch

 

[Athlex]

Sweet. What kind of mobo/heatsink did you end up using?

 

[JWMiddleton]

Question on Duron/Athlon and RC5: If you have a Duron running at 1 GHz and an Athlon (TBird) at 1 GHz would you see any difference in the key rate?

 

[Phil00]

A T-Bird and a Duron of the same speed will run RC5 at exactly the same speed. This makes the Duron real value for money for RC5.

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[Fingers]

what about ogr, is there any difference on that.

 

[RC5Bri]

What would the minimum power supply have to be for a dual AMD processor board? I would guess that it should be at least 300W. Luckily I just bought a new Antec sx830 with a 300W PS.

If these boards are stable, I will have to upgrade from my BP6, dual 366@561. Just imagine the keyrate of dual 1GHz!

 

[Athlex]

Fingers- There is a difference between K7 and Thunderbird Athlons because of the difference in cache speed, but I'm not sure if the difference in cache size would give the Athlon (TBird) an advantage over a Duron.

 

[MadMerc]

RC5Bri - the one picture of a dual amd board i have seena picture of has two atx power connectors

 

[xtreme2k]

man, I am waiting for Dual Tbird/Duron at 1.2GHz cracking

7M keys/s

 

[Jagators]

I don't see the difference between my Athlon Classic and the Durons. They both run around 3.5 to 3.6M keys/s. I've not tried a T-bird yet.

 

[Athlex]

Jagators,
Actually, I was just quoting the TA "speeds page". Supposedly TBirds crank a little faster than equally clocked K7s for OGR. The cache speed was just a speculation on my part because I can't think of any other differences between the two...

 

[BurntKooshie]

I hope everyone realizes the expense that Dual EV6 bus motherboards will cost. We're used to 4 and 6 layer PCB boards for Athlon boards. Well, with dual EV6, expect that to climb a little bit. So not only will the boards be larger because of the extra chip, they'll be more expensive due to the extra layers of PCB as well. These won't be as cheap as BP6's.

 

[Athlex]

How does that differ from an Intel dualie? Would an AMD setup require a second northbridge?

 

[vss1980]

From what I have seen I don't think it requires a 2nd Northbridge.

 

[murdmath]

What do you think the price will be for one of these? Power requirments? In the best interest of cracking do you think it would be cheaper to just get two motherboards?

Murdmath

 

[wolf550e]

EV6 requires eachcpu to have its own path to the northbridge, which makes it to get the same bandwith as in a single cpu situation, hile intel dual chips share the bandwith, but this path to the northbridge (ram) adds pcb layers. please correct me if i'm wrong, cause im not very sure on the details. definetly only 1 northbridge, and the max number of cpus in setup if defined by chipset, thats im very sure. about power req. i want to know too, because when i will upgrade my p3-550@733, dual durons@1000 will sound really nice...