[CentOS] Re: Opteron Mobo Suggestions, Celestica A8440/A2210

Lim Wee Cheong centos at xssist.com
Thu Jun 23 03:38:34 UTC 2005


anyone tried dual core opterons on the Celestica A8440 (AMD Quartet) or the
Celestica A2210 (AMD Serenade/ HP Proliant DL145 G1)? The last BIOS update
states support for revision E. the dual cores revisions are E1 to E6.

Quoting Peter Arremann <loony at loonybin.org>:

> On Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:10, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith at ieee.org> wrote:
>> Technically, all mainboards should support dual-core Opterons.
>
> Should... Hate that word... Via was the only ones that officially stated that
> the K8T890 chipset has issues with dual core - but there are rumors out there
> that some early NForce4(pro, 2200, whatever variant) chips share the same
> issue.
>
>> But the market reality is why give consumers a BIOS update when
>> you can charge for a new mainboard?  ;->
>
> Unfortunately you're on the money with that one. I scored some dual 
> core chips
> from AMD and all boards I used except the newer Tyan ones don't have bios
> updates available...
>
> Peter.
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