[NTLUG:Discuss] Sun ships single Opteron with AGPx8 and 4 PCI-X busses! -- WAS: HDTV card for Linux

[David Simmons]

On Wed, 2004-09-08 at 12:38, Bryan J. Smith wrote:
> Sorry to introduce a tangent, but a vendor has _finally_ shipped a
> single Opteron platform with _true_ multiple PCI busses starting under
> $2K for Socket-940 starting with the Opteron 144 (1.8GHz, 1MB L2) upto
> the latest 150 (2.4GHz, 1MB L2)

With all of these 'highend' specs...I'm totally baffled as to why they
didn't include a few SATA ports?  I know that Linux support is just
coming around - but it seems like they have a Ferrari engine with a VW
transmission?

Thanks for the info/analysis,

dave