Am Di, den 07.06.2005 schrieb Jack Howarth um 23:50: > I am in the process of building a new Linux workstation using the > Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885) motherboard and a single dual core Model 270 > Opteron. While I know that this motherboard will support the dual > core Opteron, I am confused about the possibility of adding a second > Model 270. Although Tyan claims adding a second dual core Model 270 > will work, I am concerned about the 2-way description of the 2xx series > processors. Does this refer to the 2 physical chips or what? My gut > instinct is that this notation implies that only a single dual core > is usable on the motherboard and that a 4-way (8xx series) processor > would be needed to use both sockets on the motherboard. Thanks in > advance for any clarifications. > Jack 2-way means you can up to 2 Opterons in parallel. 4-way up to 4, ... 1 dual core Opteron is 1 object / entity as up to now it was when just single core Opterons were available. With other words: if the motherboard is a dual board and it supports the dual core Opterons you can have 2 dual core CPUs in it. Btw. from magazine reading it shall be a fast runner ;) Alexander -- Alexander Dalloz | Enger, Germany | GPG http://pgp.mit.edu 0xB366A773 legal statement: http://www.uni-x.org/legal.html Fedora Core 2 GNU/Linux on Athlon with kernel 2.6.11-1.27_FC2smp Serendipity 00:01:25 up 14 days, 22:39, load average: 0.35, 0.37, 0.42
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