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Is it worth it?

I have recently been offered some second hand hardware...

Tyan Tiger MP mother board with AMD 760 chipset
1.5Gb EEC DDR RAM
2 X Athlon MP1800+ CPUs

I think I have been asked a fair price, but are they worth buying?

Anyone got interesting info on them?
Any problems with this set up?
Any advice with this set up?

thanx,
m3

chicagoan

Nice boards, a couple of 64 bit PCI slots for those cheap fibre channel adaptors on ebay!
Tyan seem to keep up to date on updating the bios for older machines. We had hundreds of Tyan boards in one of our phone shops and can't recall ever having had a mobo related problem.
Keep in mind some of these borads require REGISTERED DDR MEMORY to post and require the use of "MP" processors should you want to upgrade later, though it seems a pretty healthy bundle already.
I'd be intersted of you decide to pass ;-)

monkey3

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I do know that this set up is currently in use and so does work together (your comment about the registered memory).
How much would you say this little lot would be worth? (a very opinionated question I know, but...) (I cant seem to find resellers of these boards or CPUs)

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monkey3

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ok, so it seems to be worth it.

but, and this is going to sound a bit stupid, it's not really a desktop solution is it?

wyliecoyoteuk

Would make a mean Gamestation:)

monkey3

ASKER

ok, sounds good.
thanx for all your help.

wyliecoyoteuk, could you post me links to drivers etc. or did you just go to the Tyan site?
<beep beep>

m3 :)

wyliecoyoteuk

We used the Tyan site, for firmaware and software.

monkey3

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ok, thanx.