--- Joel Robertson <tech6@tyan.com> wrote:
I didn't get a direct response from the engineers to explain your question but they did instruction the web folks to update the spec sheet to show 8.0GB transfers. So to answer your question I guess this motherboard will support that.
Dual-core CPU's are still an unknown since they have yet to be released to the partners to do evaluation/compatiblity testing. AMD is busy showing them off but the partners aren't getting them yet. We don't know when we will have an affirmative answer to this inquiry. When we do it will be put up on the website.
> Well in the specs for the K8WE it says 6.4GB/s but a 16x16 HyperTrans
>link at 1Ghz would be 8.0GB/s wouldn't it? The spec sheets for the
>nVidia 2200/2050 MCPs and the newest AMD Opterons with the E4 stepping
>all state 1000Mhz (8.0GB/s). Is the board limited to 800Mhz while the
>processor and chipset aren't?
>
>Also, will it support "Italy" dual-core Opterons which are supposed to
>debut at the end of this year?
>
>http://hypertransport.org/products/prod...ecordID=68&CFID=98006&CFTOKEN=64336988
>http://news.com.com/AMD+updates+the+Opt...part=rss&tag=5572876&subj=news.1006.20
>http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_608,00.html
>http://www2.amd.com/us-en/protected/Weblets/1,,7832_11341,00.html?redir=CPQR07
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I didn't get a direct response from the engineers to explain your question but they did instruction the web folks to update the spec sheet to show 8.0GB transfers. So to answer your question I guess this motherboard will support that.
Dual-core CPU's are still an unknown since they have yet to be released to the partners to do evaluation/compatiblity testing. AMD is busy showing them off but the partners aren't getting them yet. We don't know when we will have an affirmative answer to this inquiry. When we do it will be put up on the website.
> Well in the specs for the K8WE it says 6.4GB/s but a 16x16 HyperTrans
>link at 1Ghz would be 8.0GB/s wouldn't it? The spec sheets for the
>nVidia 2200/2050 MCPs and the newest AMD Opterons with the E4 stepping
>all state 1000Mhz (8.0GB/s). Is the board limited to 800Mhz while the
>processor and chipset aren't?
>
>Also, will it support "Italy" dual-core Opterons which are supposed to
>debut at the end of this year?
>
>http://hypertransport.org/products/prod...ecordID=68&CFID=98006&CFTOKEN=64336988
>http://news.com.com/AMD+updates+the+Opt...part=rss&tag=5572876&subj=news.1006.20
>http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_608,00.html
>http://www2.amd.com/us-en/protected/Weblets/1,,7832_11341,00.html?redir=CPQR07
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