On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 22:45 +0100, Xiyan Lon wrote: > I am planning to build new machine for my self (only for desktop or > workstation). > In my previuos machine I have PC3200/DDR400 non-ECC 2GB of RAM and > nvidia 6600gt > Because I have DDR400, I want to buy motherboard which support this RAM. > Actually I want to buy Athlon X2 3800 socket 939 but I did not find in > the market (only AM2 in the market). > After searching, I found opteron series 100 (160,170 and 180) and I > think this processor support amd64 and have dual-core. With this new > machine I want to install fc6 x86_64. > My question: Are there any experience with this processor (opteron > series 100) for using on desktop machine? > > XL > I've got a large number of Opteron machines ranging from 2 x Opteron 248, 2 x Opteron 270, 285 up to 4 x Opteron 870 - all running Fedoa (and RHEL) x86_64. No problems what-so-ever. However, A. Dual core 17x/18x Opterons require a "normal" s939 motherboard. (The same boards as Athlon64X2 CPUs.) B. Dual socket 2xx Opterons require ECC/Registered memory. In short, if you want dual core + DDR memory, you'll have to find a 939 mother-boards. Have you tried Ebay? - Gilboa
