I've been using a dual "dual core" opteron (dual 285's) machine on a Tyan
s2892 Mobo (K8SE), with an nvidia 6800 GTO card, and MAudio 2496 sound
card.

SL5.4 has run flawlessly, including installing Netbeans, skype_static,
virtualbox with windows, and vlc with the libdvdcss hacks.

I have had this home assembled machine since Xmas 2005. Although it is a
server mobo - it works perfectly fine as a workstation, and I used it for
a while as a research machine at a university in place of the
university-supplied machinery. I have yet to find a reason why I would
want to upgrade it!

I have had just about everything running on the machine at various times,
including Gentoo, Arch Linux, solaris, ... etc ...

I also have SL5.4 running on a friends triple-core phenom running on an
ASUS micro-ATX mobo, with onboard video and sound, without any apparent
issues.












> Hello all,
>
> I've been tasked with purchasing a computer with 2 processors at least
> (not just multicore) has anyone experience with hardware that works
> flawlessly with SL 5?  I'm leaning towards Intel processors - would I
> only be looking for Xeon or are there core i7 dual processor
> motherboards out there too?  This will be a desktop/research machine -
> so servers are not exactly what I'm looking for.
>
> Of course I'm also searching around already but I was wondering if
> anyone had any suggestions from which I could start.
>
> Thank you!
> -Chris Tooley
>