On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:23:08AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-21 at 12:01 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 01:36:55AM -0400, Faheem Mitha wrote: > [snip] > > single dual core. Of course they also require a dual socket board > > rather than a single socket board, and you could put two dual core > > Unless I am misunderstanding you, I think that is wrong. Since they > use Socket 940, they are a drop-in replacement for "regular" chips. > All that might be necessary is a BIOS upgrade (and kernel 2.6.12).
You require a dual socket motherboard to run 2 single core opterons, and you do not require one to run a single dualcore opteron. That is I believe what I said, although maybe I messed it up somehow. With the dualcore chip you can use a cheaper board to get 2 cores running, but you only get half the memory bandwidth of a two chip single core system. > http://www.sudhian.com/showdocs.cfm?aid=672&pid=2568 > One of the most-talked-about features of AMD?s dual core product > line has been its drop-in compatibility with existing Socket > 939 / 940 motherboards. Now that products are actually launch- > ing, AMD has reiterated that motherboards based on Socket 939 > and 940 should be able to handle a dual core replacement once > the BIOS is flashed to recognize the new processor. Exactly. Len Sorensen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
