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Are Tyan motherboards any good? (1 Viewer)

Jeff Williams

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I am in the process of finding a new board and would like to have dual processors. I am also sticking with AMD so that limits my choices to Tyan and Asus. I have an Asus now and it is great, but how about Tyan. Are they reliable? I have heard good and bad about them, but that's to be expected. Any thoughts or opinions?

Jeff
 

JohanK

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For dual CPUs, I have heard nothing but good things about Tyan. I run an older Tyan Trinity 400 board in an extra computer and it has served me well.
 

Todd Hochard

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I've had two Tyan boards, and had bad luck with both of them.

The BIOS chip went bad on the Tsunami (S1846) Board, a Slot 1 PII/PIII board with the 440BX chipset.

The IDE controller went out on the Tiger 133 (S1834) Board, a dual PIII board with the VIA chipset.

As such, I now use only Asus or Abit boards. Both have been flawless, but I really like the Asus myself. Personal preference, I guess.

Todd
 

Darren Lewis

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I've used a Tyan Trinity 400 motherboard and had no problems with it. I'm currently running dual Pentium 3s on an Abit VP6.
A good site for info on dual CPU setups and reviews of some motherboards etc can be found at www.2cpu.com
 

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