Recent content by Turtle Soup

Hello Geforcepat, Hey, thanks for the offer. It's out of budget for two months. I guess I have really tripped out on the Opterons. I never had one before, did you know this CPU scans it own internal caches which have ECC just to keep them error free? And it logs the errors. Since it is a...

Well, I'm not sure about cost. I got a Supermicro H8SMI-2 with dual core Opteron 2.8Ghz and 8GB of ECC ram for $38 - And Working. Using it now. Disabled, but not approved yet, I don't have the funds for new. I think THAT WAS a great deal, even if the stuff is 6 years old. Quad core AM2+s do show...

Hello grandfatman. I seem to be in same situation as you. I have a Supermicro H8SMAI-2, it happens to be a rev 2.01. Rev 1 H8smi-2 will take AM2 cpus, I have an Opteron dual core 2.8 Ghz. Supermicro web site state rev 2.01 will handle the quad core Opteron. Quad core Opteron is AM2+, behaps...

Thanks for the response. Orcad is my biggest CAD. It is older now, but works good. I also use other mechanical cad. Orcad does simulation, but probable not multicore. None the less, windows XP sure makes use of the two cores the Opteron has. So there are numerious tasks it runs parallel. Thanks.

Hello Amd Forum. :) I am on exceedingly low budget. Got a SuperMicro H8SMI-2 off of the bay with 8Gb EEC memory all working. (Yes, there is a utility that will implement my paging file on the upper 4Gb. Great upgrade from a single pentium. Must run with 10X the umph over the pentium. This mobo...