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  • Brane2 - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link

    Tyan is exceptional mostly in their marketing material.
    I still remember the fu**up we had with their support for server boards we ordered.
    Even though a HW bug was confiormed, we were basically left dry.

    Fu** that.
    BTW, with only 1.5 real providers for EPYC boards and solutions, how can they be "exceptional" along Supermicro ?
  • DanNeely - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link

    Tyan and SuperMicro are the exceptions to motherboard makers not offering Epyc products at all? /trollface
  • Athlex - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link

    Asrock Rack has some interesting Epyc offerings. Their support for Open19 form factors is interesting and seems more practical for a lot of businesses than OCP.
  • stephenbrooks - Monday, September 14, 2020 - link

    I had a 8skt Opteron Tyan server with a hardware problem, there was a lot of quibbling over who would provide the packing material for transport and then the courier busted up the server even more.
  • Middleman - Tuesday, September 15, 2020 - link

    Tyan is the best motherboard brand I've ever owned. Very high quality products.
  • niva - Monday, September 21, 2020 - link

    Same here, but that was a long time ago. Judging by other comments it seems things have changed over the years...
  • Oxford Guy - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link

    "BTW, with only 1.5 real providers for EPYC boards and solutions, how can they be 'exceptional' along Supermicro ?"

    The standard can be versus other motherboards in other niches/genres. This is similar to the tu quoque fallacy, which is often used to argue that an evil is something worth supporting because another evil is worse. This fallacy shows up in politics constantly.

    In this case, instead of having a bunch of equivalent evilness, one could say there is a bunch of equivalent goodness. For instance, let's say you have three companies selling Epyc boards, all of which use identical components and software. Let's say that their identical (or nearly-identical, it doesn't matter as long as the overall product quality is essentially the same high standard) product standard is very high when compared with most other motherboards, including enterprise-grade boards for Intel.

    Each of those companies could fairly claim exceptional quality even though all three of them are selling the same thing (or roughly so).
  • jeremyshaw - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link

    You just made a "to quoque fallacy" for no real reason. Hopefully you did not just learn the phrase and decided to use it. After all - to introduce another useless phrase - "to a hammer, everything is a nail."
  • close - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link

    It's not even a tu quoque fallacy (either of them, Tyan's, or Oxford Guy's).
  • Oxford Guy - Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - link

    You forgot to include the phrase conspiracy theory.

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