940->939?

[MiranoPoncho]

Would it be possible to turn, say an older socklet 940 cpu into a 939 one, without buying the crappy nf150 mobos?

 

[cirthix]

i dont think cutting off the pin is wise

 

[Lithan]

In short, no. In long, hell no.

 

[imported_michaelpatrick33]

No, the integrated memory controller on the 940 has registred memory pin whereas the 939 doesn't have the registered memory requirement, therein lies the difference. If you hack a pin you will hack the chip into hell unforutnately. Also there is the bios recognition of the motherboard to contend with.

I also don't understand your question.
Are you saying that you don't want to buy a 939 motherboard or a buy a 940 motherboard?

 

[MiranoPoncho]

Thanks for your advice, and yes, this dose make some sense, but the only reason i wanna stay away from the socket 940 is i have heard of thier crappy mobo's. i mean, if i were to get a 939, i coud just get a cheap winchester or something... anywho thanks!

 

[skar]

Yup, almost all SMP opteron boards are built using AMDs reference chipset, which doesn't provide PCI-E, only PCI-X, also the prices of SMP opteron boards are a little costlier than SMP Xeons and the registered RAM needed for opterons is also costlier. However, the cpu price is cheaper and you have the option of dual core and also great performance and 64-bitness 🙂 Ofcourse, Nocona also has 64-bit support, but the performance is'nt too encouraging at this moment 😉

 

[Markfw]

Originally posted by: skar
Yup, almost all SMP opteron boards are built using AMDs reference chipset, which doesn't provide PCI-E, only PCI-X, also the prices of SMP opteron boards are a little costlier than SMP Xeons and the registered RAM needed for opterons is also costlier. However, the cpu price is cheaper and you have the option of dual core and also great performance and 64-bitness 🙂 Ofcourse, Nocona also has 64-bit support, but the performance is'nt too encouraging at this moment 😉

PCI-X is faster than PCIe(1x), so why is that a bad thing ? PCI-X is about ~= PCIe(8x) But the only thing that can that bandwidth anyway is a nice SCSI 320 caching controller (or other similar device)