Opteron 146 Socket 939 -- what motherboards work for it?

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What Socket 939 nForce4 motherboards work with the new Opterons out of the box, specifically the Opteron 146? Which ones will post and boot up, allowing you to flash the BIOS so that you can use them with the new single core Opterons?

Let's start a thread to keep track of motherboards that don't need to be flashed using a different Socket 939 CPU. (That way you can buy your CPU plus motherboard without having to have already owned a different Socket 939 CPU.)
 

the Chase

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MSI Neo 2-F and 146 totally compatable for one.

Edit-Oops thats a Nforce3(AGP) board. I would think all MSI N4's would be fine though.
 

Fallengod

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All Socket 939 NF4 boards do. They have to...... Might need a bios update to see it as an opteron. It might come up as a San diego without one, but it would still work fine....
 

Spacecomber

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I was curious if all motherboards supporting the socket 939 opteron also support ECC unbuffered memory. The Tyan K8E is the only board that I've found that seems to officially support socket 939 opterons. It is using a nforce4 chipset and it apparently supports ECC memory, but I wasn't sure if motherboards without official support for the opteron would also be able to take advantage of ECC memory.
 

CP5670

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I was trying to find out the same thing yesterday (planning to order one in a few days) and came across this:
http://www.planet3dnow.de/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=2443118

It's in German but is comprehensible (barely :p) if you run it through Babelfish.

Looks like my A8V board supports it but needs the latest BIOS, although that's fine for me since I already have a CPU to flash it with.
 

datwater

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Using Biostar NF4ST-A9. Using the "XGP" slot with a 9800 pro til I get a PCI-E card later this week. Recognized the opty 146 right out of the box. Running it @ 2400 right now and it's running fine. Will squeeze some more out of it later. Good inexpensive stable board ;)

Have fun.