Tiger MP

valis · Post by **valis** » Sun Dec 16, 2001 3:51 am

Well subhuman's update seems promising, and the word that i've been hearing is that mpx increases pci bandwidth again (although it still uses pci only for the nort/south connection thereby reducing bandwidth again).

I think i'm going to go xeon tho, unless someone can confirm that pulsar works well with mp real fast. I simply need to write music, even if it means throwing money at the issue.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 9:54 am

Single processor & Intel for the least issues, if indeed, you're more concerned about making music than messing with hardware, although I'd probably rather wait and see the MPX+Creamware than a buy a XEON which is kind of expensive.

Havoc · Post by **Havoc** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 11:49 am

Just ordered a hammerfall. Will see how that opne works with the tiger.

subhuman · Post by **subhuman** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 2:54 pm

Well if your only problem was the PCI error, then it is definitely your Tyan board, Havoc, because it's 100% GONE with our new Tiger rev1.03. And guess what? No copyprotectionviolation errors at all yet.

This is under WinXP, LunaV3.01, ACPI MultiProcessor.

In fact it was almost <i>too</i> easy to install and get it working! I'll update with more info as I find out more.

Note to Havoc: if you can, RMA your Tiger for the new revision (or as you're trying now, RME it

)

valis · Post by **valis** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 5:00 pm

So subhuman, that's a confirmed green light on the Tiger MP? When I get back from my little vacation on the 26th I'm ordering parts, keep us posted please ;]

valis · Post by **valis** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 9:10 pm

I should amend that to 'parts for a new machine' in general. I'm still too wary of the MP/MPX chipset until I hear more positive reviews from the Pulsar camp...(or Scope/Luna yadda yadda).

But I will have to admit that having an entire machine built for the cost of the xeon mobo/1 proc/memory is certainly attractive.

Btw, current scuttlebutt is that the Asus MPX is shipping with USB 2.0 cards as the USB on the MPX chipset is having problems...

http://www.theinquirer.org/17120108.htm

Just a heads up...

Havoc · Post by **Havoc** » Mon Dec 17, 2001 11:03 pm

Yep, only got the pci error. Only with some tweaks I got the copyprotectionerror.

I will try it, but as the problem is only with one, to be honest quite obscure card (look at it as a hardware dealer), I doubt they will change it. They will just argue that as the board works fine with every other card you use, it must be the card that's faulty. I know I would do the same if I were in the shop.

valis · Post by **valis** » Tue Dec 18, 2001 4:04 pm

Well Havoc, if you're saying you're not sure you can RMA the board, I'd suggest going back to the 2cpu forums and gathering a list of things wrong with the pre-rev1.03 boards and using those as your reasons.

Not *entirely* ethical, but when I need IRC to work calling tech support and telling them that realplayer is having QOS problems with rtsp links due to an inability to communicate over ports 6540-7100. *Viola* ports 6667-7000 open ;]

Doubtful I'd get the same response if I called up "Ummm, like, my homies are all on this chat thing called irc..."