Heat Pipe sinks work the best,and yes i use them for all 4 cpus,one for the northbridge and two for the 4850 cores.
I am a mod member at 2cpu.com but now in the 4way days,i myself belong among another bred of enthusiasts.
Vile 4 way QUad opterons!
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Heat Pipe sinks work the best,and yes i use them for all 4 cpus,one for the northbridge and two for the 4850 cores.
I am a mod member at 2cpu.com but now in the 4way days,i myself belong among another bred of enthusiasts.
Vile 4 way QUad opterons!
Quad socket boards ... four times the number of things to go wrong, but 2^4 times the WIN when they go right!
I'll send another pic of my non-ghetto setup once I get the cables dressed up. Which should be tonight...:cool:
I kinda want a real case that I can mount this board in. BUT it would also need to hold both radiators, and that may be a little on the huge (and heavy) side :ROTF:
by real do you mean a predefined metal box made by a company or wooden cabinet made to fit? cuz if it's the former i hear ya. but in reality the weed cabinet fits my needs perfectly, kinda like your cardboard case lol
Well wood is just extremely heavy lol. I mean a relatively normal metal case. But odds are that it will stay in the cardboard "case" :D
Do you keep your weed in there? :rofl: :ROTF: :shocked:Quote:
Originally Posted by shoota
Omg! How did that happen?!? Lol phone typing ftl
Upgrade today:
http://img198.imageshack.us/img198/3530/imag1141e.jpg
PS: I forgot to get that last retention bracket today.
I want one now :rofl:
£100ish for the board approx with shipping .... hmmmm
Update: So the 430w power supply may not work. Board powers up for a few seconds, then powers back down. Back on the 650w, POST just fine. What's the minimum anyone is running with one hard drive, a small video card and four CPUs? I really don't want to run a monster power supply if I don't have to. Maybe a 500? 550? Hmmm....
Which CPUs did you get?Quote:
Originally Posted by retro77
will that 400w psu in your sig be enough for those boards jacka?
Four 79W CPUs and a single HDD. Will be more than enough.
Success! flash rom did the job correclty!!!!
I am on the 1.0.4 ec x64 bios and i can now get into the bios set up .I enabled the extra two usb ports from the header found next to the battery coin.
I will pass the bios to the gurus at mydigitalline and let us hope the modders will get us full ACPI support.
Bottom is:
If yours arima does not get into the bios and you experience strange bios behavior ,update bios using flashrom and start crunching.
Many greeting to Mr shoota at this point for his help.
Does anyone runns on a newer bios version out there?
1.0.4 ec - of 3 - 3- 08 is the latest known bios.
can anyone verify this ram *should* work before I drop a Benjamin on it?
http://cgi.ebay.com/Kingston-4x1GB-P...item3a609ff458
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also - I like the farm shoota :up:
looks like I'm back to getting the 650W XFX single rail :p:Quote:
Originally Posted by retro77
thanks for verifying this though, it was worth a try!
alright! i'm glad it worked. i'm looking forward to seeing if the modders can work their magicQuote:
Originally Posted by AmiJIm
that ram should work. but you don't need 8gb for one board unless you have a specific reason for it. i have four gb and i've never seen over 2.1gb usageQuote:
Originally Posted by Rise
oooh, i was under the impression that I needed 2 per CPU. thanks for clearing it up :)Quote:
Originally Posted by shoota
i'm pretty darn sure there is no ram-filling requirement as long as the first bank is populated
Well, it's all been ordered. And I went with the 750W corsair PSU listed in the OP. It's only $5 more expensive but it has free shipping so it ends up being the same price as the XFX I posted AND it also has a MIR so it might be a good deal for anyone in the market.
4GB ram has been ordered, as well as the heatsinks.
SCHWEET! If all goes well (fingers crossed) it should be up and running by the end of next week :)
that-a-boy johnny!
I have 8347's. Four of them.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jacka
95/115W TDP. Average CPU power of 75W, so in realistic terms you'll be drawing a continuous 300W from 12V and a little extra for the motherboard, hard disks, fans, etc. Corsair CX450 is capable of continuous 450W without dropping much below 80+ specs, so it'd be fine for even the higher TDP setups.Quote:
Originally Posted by retro77
that setup with a pci card and a laptop hard drive pulls ~380W. figure in a little more powerful gpu, a desktop hard drive, extra fans and such and a 450w will start being pushed pretty hardQuote:
Originally Posted by Jacka
Awesome, thanks. I'm planning on moving the first Arima over to the laptop hard drive. Already told it to not take any new work.
sparky, et al:
got the x550 finally installed, but still no post. i must have something that doesn't work, i'm suspecting ram but i have 8 sticks of 512MB 1Rx4 PC2-4200R-444-12-C3 and no combination of 4 sticks works. i've also tried each of the two 8347 cpus that i have.
try just one stick at a time and one cpu. in cpu0 and dimm0 of course
Your filling the first four banks that are labeled CPU0 DIMM0; CPU0 DIMM1; CPU0 DIMM2; CPU0 DIMM3?
Problems again.
I was messing with the bios and i saw that the mem was set to 200mhz.Strangely enough the max option i saw given was 566mhz and as so, set it at 566mhz.Note that i am using 667mhz memories.Now the board does not post.I tried to clear the cmos by removing the battery for 3-4 hours.Any ideas?
Is it really needed to remove the battery and leave it overnight to get tha bios reset on this mobo?
any ideas?
There's usually a jumper you need to move. Also make sure you've removed all power to the board if you're going to do the pull the battery and wait method.
And that's why I don't mess with this board.. I hope you get it working. But where did you see the option to change memory?
It was something like MPC frequency.It gave me the options of Auto,200mhz which was selected and 266 ,300,.......up to 566 mhz in 33mhz steps.
It seems i need a board.PM sent .
Another thing that might help: pull the power, pull the battery and take out the processors, THEN leave it for a while. I can't believe that changing a setting can hose an enterprise board with no way of recovery. There has to be a way to reset to defaults.
i hear ya DA but it seems these boards are very picky. when i was testing pci cards for functionality i would say every third boot wouldn't post. that goes for every pci gpu i have.Quote:
Originally Posted by D_A
i'm wondering if that's why some people's boards don't post. like werdwerdus's, i think he's using 400mhz ram. but when i tested his board before i sent it to him i used 533mhz ram (i think). so maybe the setting only works for 533mhz ram??
Is there a correlation going on here or am i making it up in my head? either way there has to be a way to reset to defaults
Something that may be worth noting about the RAM - it was set to 200, which is probably meaning DDR2-400. So setting it to 400 would be DDR2-800 perhaps, and setting to 566 is DDR2-1133? Maybe? just a thought :shrug:
MCP. I think you nearly tripled the frequency of a chipset.Quote:
Originally Posted by AmiJIm
Also, regarding the memory, Barcelona officially supports upto PC2-5300 (DDR2 667MHz).
Update: Finally installed fourth CPU into second Arima. Crunching nicely on a new 500w Earthwatts PSU.
well that's good news, glad you're all set!
Jacka: I don't think those cx400's are gonna be enough. A 430w would only drive three CPUs, an x550 video card and a laptop hard drive.
Goodmorning form Greece.
Remember that when you have installed a 1000watt or any wattage psu,the consumption will only be what your specs will need.So i per instanse use a 1000watt psu and the wattometer says i am using 670watt with a flanctuation of 30 watts.
Yes, but if you use a unit that is substantially bigger than you need you will lose efficiency. Most power supplies operate at their best at about 80% of capacity, high enough so that the internal losses are not a significant amount of the input power but low enough to allow some head room for surges in draw from devices starting and stopping as well as keeping the internal components cool. Once the regulators and filter caps start to get hot they become less efficient, plus if the unit is already running hot and it starts to collect dust it will gradually lose it's ability to shed that heat, which in turn makes the unit less efficient and produce more heat, eventually cooking the internals.
Of course if your only choices are between one that's a bit too big and one that's a bit too small, you'd always err on the side of over capacity, but if you have the choice you want to spec your supply at that 80% mark.
Problems again.....
My set up ia Alive,and boots OK.But i got two velociraptors hard disks and while they work OK in windows,they are identified in Arimas bios ,can be formated with ubuntus gparted software,i cannot install the OS.It gives me the option to install the boot loader in sda,but the installer does not gives me access to the raptor.
Smart reports a healhty drive and i have tried changing the sata port to IDE and RAID config.
Currently i have installed the OS to old trusty seagate and use the raptor for file storing.
but this has to change.
I even updated the firmware on the raptor with same results.
Any ideas?
Get a laptop hard drive. Those Raptors are going to suck up too much juice.
I picked up a pair of these:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822148371
Not to mention heat. These Arima's put off some heat!
Oh boy,things are very tight in the Tai Chi thermaltake tower.How about this HD azalia sound bios thing?Could we use usb powered speakers and have sound from the onboard Azalia?
there's on board sound?
What does one need sound for? It'll steal CPU cycles from its true purpose in life...:rofl:
It's useful so you can hear Dave's Mom whoosh by you in the stats. :rolleyes:
yeah really don't want sound now..
Hi there,
Update.
After having updated the bios,i noticed that Ati radeon X700 no longer posts .
Also if you notice,you can see that you caN Enable sata sets of ports for 2 - 1 - 0,a total of six ports though our board has only two onboard for for mpc 55.I set the bios to set port Zero,and only the two onboard posts are available.And now i can boot from WD Velociraptor.
As for the onboard azalia sound ,i removed the creative soundblaster and i get no sound icon on the desktop.I run sysinfo and no chip is present.But i plugged in USB yamaha sound speakers and i got sound and the sound icon on the desktop.Notice that back in time with windows ,i would not get sound from a pc without sound board with the usb speakers plugged in.
Also i noticed that with the new bios , i can use Lsi scsi controller.Same for an adaptec i have.With the old bios, i was getting corrupted letters while posting tha efi loader.It now works OK.
I guess the board has many bugs in the bios.
Also.What speed you get for cpu and ofr the ram in bios?
Is there any sisoft sandra program like available for linux?
If you're after information on system hardware then there's tools available, but if you're after benchmarks then not as much. Intel provide the LinX benchmarking tool, but it only runs on Intel processors. You can get Prime and SuperPI ... I know there are others but I've never really bothered.
I'm impatiently sitting here pressing f5 on various tracking websites for memory, heat sinks and a PSU. looks like the memory is waiting for me at home, the PSU should arrive hopefully tomorrow and I have no clue about the HS's as they only say "left san jose cali" :mad:
f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5f5
Maybe you need to use the F5 on a Spanish keyboard for that one?
Software for hardware information please....
did you get those hs's from svc?Quote:
Originally Posted by Rise
yes - which is why they are out in west bumble :banana::banana::banana::banana: I'm guessing :p:
Don't worry my shipment from svc was fast. It'll be there soon
Quietly humming along with 32 cores...
Show off :)
expected delivery date from SVC: dec 6th (ordered 11/24)
:brick:
Wow! I got my order in four days and that's across the whole country..
Sorry to hear that, Rise. All in good time. I was the same way about power supplies and hard drives. I couldn't wait to implement!
And now I'm that way with my impending x58 build except even worse is that I have no money to order a board and ram! This is definitely gonna test my patience..
Has anyone tried dual core opterons?I have four 8222 that i am plan to use on Mr shoota board.
Let us know if it posts.
D are those Barcelona cores?
Edit: or are they Santa Rosa? I don't know if those work or not.
got my heat sinks today :D couple of days early, not too bad. anyway, i'm all set with the exception of power connectors... anyone know if I can get what I need at radio shack? I have the recommended corsair 750W PSU
The PSU might come with the six pin and one eight pin, just need the the other two eight pin connectors. Radio shack might if you have one of the bigger ones and not the consumer electronics ones.....
Dude john this is something you could have got while you were waiting! I want to know if those heatsinks fit. And I know compusa has those adapters
i know i know but i forgot :x I'll figure a way to get it this weekend. And I can check to see if the HS's fit without them anyways, might have to break out the dremel, that's all :D
:rofl:
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/IMAG0377.jpg
http://i292.photobucket.com/albums/m...e/IMAG0378.jpg
they go together easily enough, and it looks like the mounting hardware lines up perfectly to the 2 holes surrounding each CPU socket. I haven't secured them all 100% yet though because the 2 that are next to each other may need a slight slight mod to fit correctly.
Looking good. You got the heatsink deal of the year as far as I'm concerned. Looks like it wont be too hard to mod those two that are touching either
i must agree. 20 bucks for 4 heat sinks, shipped is pretty much unbeatable IMO. I can't help but feel like they lost money just sending these to me.Quote:
Originally Posted by shoota
Nice! Make sure you have a SATA HD and a SATA DVD drive laying around. Although I think the Ubuntu ISO will fit on a CD. No more setbacks, get 'er crunchin'!
:doh: just bought an 8 pin power adapter and didn't realize I need 2 of them :rofl:
looks like i'm going back to the repair shop!
Little by little Rise :up:
haha inching your way there..Quote:
Originally Posted by Rise
Very nice heatsinks.Asetek quality.Actually they are on sale here in Greece at 15 dollars.I placed an order on four of them.Mr shoota,your board arrived on wednesday.Monday morning i will try to pick it at the post office.Hope the dual cores to work .
I hope so too, good luck!
Rise? AmiJIm? Updates?
I updated the other thread just a second ago but for consistency i'll do it here to. the small tech shop by me only had 1 4pin to 8pin connector so I'm getting the other tomorrow at MC. My wife asked if i wanted to go to wholefoods in cleveland and i said sure... if i can go to MC :DQuote:
Originally Posted by shoota
I'd have gone sooner but I've been bogged down @ work. had to travel for a couple of days at the beginning of the week and on top of that its been snowing nonstop for about 2 weeks now so going after work hasn't been an option since its about 45m-1hr away from me in normal driving conditions :down:
also, i won't be crunching next week at all because i have to go to tulsa for the week for work again and my other half won't allow me to leave my computers on if i'm not around :shrug:
Well it sounds like you've got a plan. Drive safe in that snow. It got cold here this week, only topping out in the low 60's :rofl:
Oh shut up, I don't want to hear it. It has "warmed" up today - got above freezing so the parking lot is melting off a little bit at work :rolleyes: :shakes:Quote:
Originally Posted by shoota
brr.. i remember those days having lived in the midwest most of my life. I miss the snow but ONLY when it's fresh and pretty NOT after it starts melting and gets all brown and dirty..i'm not too picky haha
Well at least the country doesn't shut down when you have ~6 inches of snow :shakes:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-11924238
I mean come on, it was only -18c (-0.4F) :surf:
Edit:
This is even better;
"Snow could cost UK economy £1.2 billion a day"
http://www.totallymoney.com/news/ind...billion-a-day/
£1.2 billion ~$1,895,933,858.41
By the way, any luck in getting a BIOS image modified to fully support ACPI? Linux is getting tiring for me... yeah yeah I know, it is "better" but I can't stand it, there are too many things that just don't make sense about it that can't be worked around or are hard to deal with that drive me nuts.
do you actually "use" your arima setup? i haven't touched mine for months..
Crunching only. But from the looks of things, I need to keep an eye on it as I've had issues with BOINC doing weird things before. I followed the linux how-to thread and found out after the fact that it had directions to using an old pre-release version of BOINC, so I'm blaming it on that version. But every time I try to upgrade it, BOINC manager cannot connect to the local host and sits there. Heck even with the one that is working, if I make a shortcut on the desktop to it, it won't work. It is like it loads an entirely different instance of the manager totally separate from everything else, it is really weird.
Meh. Linux > Me.
i hear ya man, i have a love/hate relationship with linux too. Luckily i haven't had those problems. Maybe you should just start over and install everything fresh
Heh I'm afraid if I do I won't get it working at all :p:
it'll work. although installing packages downloaded from the web is way harder than it should be. whats the version of boinc in the repositories now?
I'm hardly what I would consider a "guru" and don't have trouble like what you describe, nor have I ever done so. I certainly don't consider myself to be any kind of "genius" for that matter, either. I suspect you're trying to transport your Windows skills and this is likely to be ... problematic.
For your BOINC manager issue, make sure you link to the run_manager script, not the binary itself. Both the client and the manager take the directory they are run from as part of their environment conditions, so the manager won't be looking for the client in the right place but in the starting directory and it will fail.
i thought i might see you here soon DA :rofl:
i really don't even know what you just said lol. i'm more of a linux noob than i thought i guess
...ohh that would do it then. I'm used to windows - a shortcut is just that, a shortcut, and has no bearing on the program startup directory unless explicitly stated. That's weird that linux is the other way around.Quote:
Originally Posted by D_A
Maybe you can help me figure out why I can't get rid of the old version of BOINC and install a new one properly. The old one is in the home directory, /home/BOINC I think it is. No idea how to stop it, remove it, and then upgrade to the newer version, and have that one actually run properly, at startup, and all that. That's the issue, I can sometimes fumble my way through starting stuff, but can't stop it :ROTF:
I am installing the 8216 to mr shootas board and the asetek heatsinks and the new heatsink to the northbridge.I will post results and pics later this day.
No news from the bios modders on the ACPI issue.
How about six core opterons?I saw there are six core opterons with ddr2 - 800mhz integrated controller.Would these work?They worked on super micro MCP 55 based boards.
Are they Istanbul cores? Cuz I've heard those don't work on our board.
Yes,i am refering to instabul cores.Where did you heard it from?
from the guys who had these boards before us. I think KarbonKid maybe?
I don't have one, sir. Student loan's got the better of me :(. I may have said no 6-core support because (if?) they don't support DDPM (split power planes) which is a requirement for Istanbul and an option with Shanghai. Even Shanghai support hinges on the firmware having correct microcode and AGESA..