Another Opteron Question.

[MBrown]

How are these different than the 940 opterons other than the pin number. If I remember correctly, the opterons(at least the 940s) are suppose to have more hypertransport lanes than the regular X2s. Is it the same for the 939s? If so would we see a performance difference with are 939 motherboards if we had opterons?

 

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[thesurge]

que?

 

[Cooler]

Quadruple post ??

 

[MBrown]

^yup. I'm trying to get an answer...

 

[Budman]

Originally posted by: MBrown
^yup. I'm trying to get an answer...

Why does it even matter? you got a socket 939 board.

Are you gonna sell your socket 939 board and buy ECC ddr and a socket 940 board?

 

[MBrown]

Originally posted by: Budman

Originally posted by: MBrown
^yup. I'm trying to get an answer...

Why does it even matter? you got a socket 939 board.

Are you gonna sell your socket 939 board and buy ECC ddr and a socket 940 board?

I was just wondering. I figured somebody might know something about it on a forum like Anandtech.

 

[CP5670]

I would think that the 939 ones have a slightly different memory controller (that uses unregistered memory) and no extra hypertransport links at all, not even disabled ones like the 1xx 940 Opterons. There shouldn't be any major differences, anyway.

 

[uOpt]

The 1xx socket 940 Opterons do not have the additional hyperlinks disabled, they are all routed to I/O.

The socket 939 Opterons don't have the additional hyperlinks, at least they are not connected to anything through the socket.

Both socket 939 and 940 Opteron take ECC and non-ECC RAM. Socket 939 Opterons require non-registered RAM, socket 940 Opterons require registered RAM.