What will be the best chipset to have for a Socket F Dual processor Board.

Thanks

"Best" is a relative term. There are 2 chipsets, nVidia and Broadcom. I would choose a Broadcom chipset if you are looking for the most "corporate" chipset and I would choose nVidia if you are looking for the highest performance.

nVidia tends to go for performance and you will see more driver revs with their product. Broadcom tends to be more stable with fewer driver revs, but then it may not have all of the fancy features because its targeted at a corporate customer that wants more conformity

well i choose Supermicro H8DA3-2 or ASUS KFN32-d or TYAN S2915 REV F. ANy of these 3 beasts

Is there any particular reason you want to talk about 3 diff mobos, all with nVidia chipsets from what I can tell in this thread about different chipsets for the Opteron? Have you considered using the new thread button instead of asking an offtopic question in a semi-dead thread?

Edited: 06/07/2007 at 07:33 AM by Nil Einne

Not many choices for AMD Opteron chipsets. I hate to say it but my next board will be Intel based. I don't like the limited choices for Socket F Opteron server boards.

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Isn't everything new supposed to be for multisocket boards as well ?

AMD/ATI's 690 and 790 should AFAIK have no problems working with Optys.

IIWY I would wait for Barcelona/Agena/Phenom and see which new boards will those chips bring to the market...

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Barcelona should fit into any rev f board. The long-term upgradability is pretty good. On the Intel side you have to keep swapping out equipment with every new family.