Anyone know a good dual Tuliatin (sp) motherboard. It sounds weird I know but I have a 1.4/512/133 PIII that is better than P4's up to about 1.8Ghz and a processor terminator. I also have access to lots of cheap RAM. I want to essentially build a system using parts I have lying around so I'm looking for the following:

1 Agp (4X I figure but 8X if you know of one)

2 socket 370 Tulitain slots with support for 1.4 S PIII processors

4-8 Ram slots (SD or DDR? I have looked and seen that it doesnt matter for 1 processor but I figured the extra bandwith might be better for two)

5-6 PCI slots Ideally some of them 64 bit but not necessicarily

FDD and at least 2 PATA slots preffereably 3

I STFW and found some models but precious little info on what is better. My biggest question is DDR or SDRAM.

6/19/2007 2:21:32 PM

ebay is definitely going to be your best bet, any board new is going to cost an arm and a leg.

You will be MUCH better off selling the tualitins on ebay (they still fetch an alright amount) along with the memory and building a new system.



[Edited on June 19, 2007 at 2:30 PM. Reason : .]

6/19/2007 2:29:13 PM

I have a new system (3.4 4MB PD 2.5GB ram exct) that I use for most things I need but I want this for a system to play with and for all of its PCI slots. I am definitely going used I just dont know any specific boards to look for.

6/19/2007 2:43:28 PM

just find what you want to match your needs on ebay. brands arent going to matter too much because most of the boards are going to server boards and they are all going to be farely mature.

Supermicro, Soyo, Tyan, MSI, Serverworks, Asus, Abit etc are all going to be good boards

6/19/2007 3:17:10 PM

the tatuine is not a dual system, it has 1 core, w/ 4 satellites

6/19/2007 3:30:12 PM

I know that it is not dual core. I want to run 2 processors. It seems that nobody can answer my main question about DDR vs SDRAM. I'm actually looking for a workstation board btw not a server board.

6/19/2007 3:59:34 PM

looking at that post I sound like a douche, I didn't mean to be I just meant that my main question is should I go DDR or SDRAM, something that I didnt make clear in the first post. Thanks

6/19/2007 6:00:22 PM

tyan made great boards for this, but it's probably a big waste of time as noen said

[Edited on June 19, 2007 at 6:05 PM. Reason : p3's do not support ddr ram]

[Edited on June 19, 2007 at 6:06 PM. Reason : chipset's kinda did.. but still, sd and ddr are both expensive and hard to find]

6/19/2007 6:04:48 PM

SDRAM is going to be your only choice on a dual processor setup. At least, the only choice worth visiting.

But I still think youd be better off selling the parts you have and just picking up a cheap system.

Hell Garfus sells dual PIII complete systems every month or so on here for a hundred bucks. Which is less than you are going to be able to get a decent motherboard+memory for.

6/19/2007 6:48:56 PM

the tatuine system works only in master or slave mode, i'd only go with that if you have the force.

6/19/2007 9:54:21 PM

^ i'm gonna hope that was a joke

Edit: the thing is i dont need to FIND SDram i have hordes of it

[Edited on June 19, 2007 at 11:28 PM. Reason : ]

6/19/2007 11:26:26 PM