Opteron's. what type of memory?

[Bruin]

Can a AMD Opteron 148 run with regular DDR memory? AMD's site says ECC RAM
only. Also, can you drop one of these babys into any socket 939
motherboard?

Anyone running one of these on a ULi M1695 motherboard (as in ASRock's)?

Seems too good to be true, a bit of an overclock & it would be equal to a
FX57.

 

[Peter van der Goes]

Can a AMD Opteron 148 run with regular DDR memory? AMD's site says ECC
RAM only. Also, can you drop one of these babys into any socket 939
motherboard?

Anyone running one of these on a ULi M1695 motherboard (as in ASRock's)?

Seems too good to be true, a bit of an overclock & it would be equal to a
FX57.

I may well be incorrect, and if I am, somebody will correct me .
I believe Socket 939 Opterons will run with non-ECC memory, but the Socket
940 Opterons require ECC memory.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

The 148 exists for both Socket 939 and 940.

http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/opteron/Default.aspx

(Select the ordinary Opterons.)

I presume that you'd have to use the Socket 939 version in a Socket 939
board; they're not at all interchangeable. The Socket 940 Athlons usually
require some sort of registered (buffered) memory, which is less common (and
more expensive) than generic DDR SDRAM.

The CPU support list for the Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 is:

http://www.asrock.com/support/CPU_Support/show.asp?Model=939Dual-SATA2

It claims that you can use a (S. 939) Opteron 148, if the board's BIOS
version is P1.40 or later. (Version 1.50 is available for download there.)


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[Bruin]

The 148 exists for both Socket 939 and 940.

http://www.amdcompare.com/us-en/opteron/Default.aspx

(Select the ordinary Opterons.)

I presume that you'd have to use the Socket 939 version in a Socket 939
board; they're not at all interchangeable. The Socket 940 Athlons usually
require some sort of registered (buffered) memory, which is less common
(and more expensive) than generic DDR SDRAM.

The CPU support list for the Asrock 939Dual-SATA2 is:

http://www.asrock.com/support/CPU_Support/show.asp?Model=939Dual-SATA2

It claims that you can use a (S. 939) Opteron 148, if the board's BIOS
version is P1.40 or later. (Version 1.50 is available for download there.)


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Thanks to both people that replied. I had not seen that there were 940
versions of the 148. I will keep that in mind when (if?) I am selecting
one for purchase.

Haha, yea, pretty simple, just look it up on ASRocks site. Thanks for that.
AMD site on RAM & Opteron's: "Supports production DIMMs from industry
standard DRAM memory manufacturers. Only registered-type memory modules
should be used." However, personally I am not convinced just yet. I
believe this CPU would run happily with regular unbuffered RAM. ASRock
claims that their board can run it. Just hope that I can boot it long
enough to flash the BIOS.

 

[Bob Knowlden]

The Socket 939 Opterons don't require registered DIMMs. I'm not sure that
any S. 939 boards *support* registered memory.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_8806~85257,00.html#85264

(This is primarily aimed at server builders, but some of it applies to
desktops as well.)

The 939 Opterons support ECC, but they don't require it.

It might be safer to go with a Venice 4000+ (2.4 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache),
although it'd still be possible to get into compatibility issues with some
versions of the chip.

 

[Bruin]

The Socket 939 Opterons don't require registered DIMMs. I'm not sure that
any S. 939 boards *support* registered memory.

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_8796_8806~85257,00.html#85264

(This is primarily aimed at server builders, but some of it applies to
desktops as well.)

The 939 Opterons support ECC, but they don't require it.

It might be safer to go with a Venice 4000+ (2.4 GHz, 1 MB L2 cache),
although it'd still be possible to get into compatibility issues with some
versions of the chip.

Problem with a 4000+ is it is cost. That is what overclocking is all about,
right? Cheap CPU clocked up to an expensive CPU! =) I know this is not
an overclocking group, I just wanted to ask about that Opteron. Thanks for
the suggestion though.