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@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> On Wednesday 22 June 2005 19:10, Bryan J. Smith <b.j.smith@xxxxxxxx> 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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