404, any news on arima board? I looked over at xtremsystems, they are doing something, but far from plug&play ready. Did you manage to power up the board? And is there any bios update for new opterons if you happen to know?
hm... an educated dude who runs a top company vs arbitrary ppl like sarah palin, schwarzeneger etc. not the guy you`d like to have a beer with though. :D
the performance hit on x4 pcie vs 16x pcie is about 10-20 frames/s, on 8x vs 16x about 5 frames/s. there`s a site testing various bandwith configs, but I forgot which one it was.