Opteron for socket 939

[Furen]

This may not be the most interesting sounding news, but I wonder the new opteron 100 series will work with current 939 mobos and, if so, whether the socket 939 Opteron (san diego) ends up being a good overclocker. The $125 price tag on the 1.8GHz 144 makes it sound interesting, to say the least.

 

[n7]

Since when did Opterons start coming in 939-pin? 😕

 

[Furen]

I dont believe they're out yet, but they've been announced.

Link

 

[thecoolnessrune]

1. Yes I believe they are already available, just not to online resellers.

2. Yes there will be compatibility with a BIOS update. So whatever company's can develop a new BIOS should have compatibility. Of course, it wont have the true server featureset of say, a Tyan, Supermicro, or I-will board.

 

[Furen]

And here I thought that "...are expected to be available within 30 days" meant that they werent available yet 🙂. Anyway, I'd guess that even without bios support they'd be recognized as "Unknown" San Diegos unless AMD makes them incompatible.

 

[ProviaFan]

I must be out of the loop... I thought Opterons were mainly for dual and higher CPU configurations. Is the only advantage that a 100 series Opteron has over a normal A64 the support of ECC memory?

 

[Furen]

No, the normal A64s also support ECC. The only reason to buy a socket 939 Opteron would be for support (I'd guess). The main benefit of Opteron 939s coming out is that there will be higher quality Socket 939 motherboards coming out (maybe we'll even get PCIX).

 

[coomar]

but isn't the 144 a 1mb chip? does it require ecc or can you use regular ram? seems like people would spend the extra 20 bucks and get the extra cache

 

[TankGuys]

I dno't think it would require ECC, I was under the impressiong the Opterons requried Registered, not ECC.

 

[coomar]

so then isn't this like a cheaper version of the san diego 3700?

 

[imported_Kensai]

I wonder if we'll get a new chipset..

 

[blckgrffn]

These don't require registerd, that is one of the reasons they make AMD a better choice for budget workstations 🙂 It was in a recent andandtech news article.

Nat

 

[coomar]

so basically a san diego at 1.8?

 

[blckgrffn]

I guess...

 

[coomar]

then we have a new value overclocker

 

[blckgrffn]

That was something I was thinking about too, I hope you are right, because in a couple months, I'll be in the market 😀