I've been in search of one of these for quite a while; the illusive Tyan S1834D. The 1833 and 1832 are not hard to come by; they're both BX boards....however the 1834 is a VIA 694 chipset. Far friendlier to 133FSB processors.

Rewind back to ~2001 or so.....I was determined to make my Asus P2B-D v1.06 run better than its SL4KL processors...so I bought a pair of upgradeware slot-t slotkets (back then they were maybe $40); which have voltage & hardwiring for the upcoming Tualatin CPU's. Long story short, the project was a belly flop; as was pretty much every mod project I did with the P2B-DS; no matter how hard I tried it was just never usably reliable @ 133FSB. I grew to hate these boards even though I still have several of them; with a slightly different flavor of modding....but maybe I'll share that in another thread some day.

I then tried Tualatin modding an Abit VP6. This also was a failure; as I could never get it to run right with 2 CPU's (although I did get it to run rock solid on a single Tualatin). I then bought an iWill DVD266u-RN to run the pair of Tualatin CPU's I had previously bought and went on with life. The DVD266u-RN (which I still have) had demons of its own, but was overall very stable. My other Tualatin system in the collection is a Supermicro P3TDDE....but I had this pair of upgradeware slot-t's I didn't really know what to do with until I realized that Tyan made a slot based dual board (if nobody has noticed yet, dual CPU's has been my thing going all the way back to the P-Classic days) based on the VIA 694 (Apollo 133a) chipset...and the hunt began.

I finally found one a few months ago on ebay with 1.5GB RAM and a pair of 800EB's in it for $50 shipped - working condition unknown / untested. For $50, I'll take a gamble. I did POST test it when I got it with its installed hardware just to see if it worked, and it did. Today I finally got around to the Tualatin test; as theoretically nothing should need to be modified.....but historically running dual with slotkets can be a crapshoot.

Here it is, in all its dual CPU glory!!

Next up is selecting a case for this little marvel. CPU's are 1.26GHz Tualatin-S's. I didn't have any spare 1.4's and seeing they now got for nearly $100ea, I'll just use what I have in the bin for now.