Did anyone see the update on this???

[Duvie]

"According to The Inquirer, mainboards from ABIT and EPoX will only be able to support AMD Athlon 64 revision E0 with a special revision of the BIOS. The web-site did not report which mainboards are affected and when and if the BIOS is released.

?It seems that a couple of motherboard partners did not design their mainboards to AMD?s thermal requirements for [AMD Athlon 64 processor] revision E. A BIOS update from EPoX and ABIT would fix the issue. It has nothing to do with nForce4 and is not apparent on the majority of boards available in the market. Thus, for the rest of the manufacturers, a BIOS update is not necessary,? a spokesman for NVIDIA Corp. told X-bit labs.

AMD Athlon 64 and Athlon 64 FX processors revision E0 are those based on AMD?s cores code-named Venice and San Diego respectively. The desktop AMD64 processors with E0 revision are expected to feature SSE3 technology in addition to several performance improvements and bug fixes over those found in previous revisions of AMD Athlon 64 processors made using 90nm process technology.

AMD Opteron processors already acquired E0 revision as well as SSE3 technology."

taken from Xbit.....



It appears the inquirer reputation proceeds it....reports something and gets about 10% right!!!!

Epox and Abit...shame shame shame!!!! Bios update is an easy fix unless you are not upgrading from an older chip and can do the flash first. Will it no even post meaning no way to flash it if you buy it new??? Older board in stiock wont have the bios flashes in place, likely...


Looking good for Neo2, but guy at extreme had already proved that!!!

NF4 boys are set all around it appears....

 

[GuitarDaddy]

Nice to know:thumbsup:

Now if the venice and san deigo cores live up to the hype we will be set.

 

[Dadofamunky]

Yeah, I really hate the bugs in the memory controller for the A64s. No excuse for that. C'mon. DDR 333 at 2T? That's pathetic.

 

[HankySpanky]

Originally posted by: Duvie
"... did not design their mainboards to AMD?s thermal requirements for [AMD Athlon 64 processor] revision E. ...

Would this indicate that the rev E chips will run hotter? If so, what would they do in the BIOS to compensate; reduce the speed somehow?

 

[Duvie]

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=21928


Look at this flipping hacks...They claim they were right all along....I gues iff you throw out a vague enough net when you snag a few dead fish you still claim you are a winner....I like how Nvidia so called blasted them for their haste in the original article....


"We also got the confirmation that the problem comes from AMD's side of the table, and that it changed thermal regulation stuff inside of those new CPUs. We've asked AMD to comment on this matter as well."

got this from the above article...i think it is related to cool-n-quiet specs and maybe thermal shutdown properties.....Results from early testing doesn't show this chip being any hotter then an already rather cool running winchesters....




"Currently AMD advices its mainboard partners to support 80A current in CPU power supply circuitry and maximum thermal power of 105W with their platforms in order to enable future dual-core processors. The company said its dual-core AMD Opteron will also require BIOS update to function properly."

again from the Xbit article....Hopefully Abit and Epox followed instructions on this one...My guess...PROBABLY NOT!!!! I hope most did and comments now by Nvidia makes e think with a bios update this is already been planned...