How to: Arima AMD Opteron Quad Core Socket F 3000 series

[Bobsama]

We heard that Windows Server 2008 or Windows 7 might work, but no one as gotten them to work yet. You're looking at Ubuntu right now.

Professional & Ultimate will only support 2 CPU sockets. You'd be limited to two Barcys with Pro/Ult...

Server 08/08r2 not working?

Has anyone tried Server 03r2?

[shoota]

I think Sparky tried server 08 without success. I'd like to see if 03 would work

[Bobsama]

I think Sparky tried server 08 without success. I'd like to see if 03 would work

Ja. I know that you can run a dual-core with 512megs RAM so I'd assume that you can run quad quad-cores with 4gigs RAM. My average RAM usage seems to be 100MB/thread so you'd only need 1.6GB for the CPUs plus OS overhead.

[Sparky]

I think Sparky tried server 08 without success. I'd like to see if 03 would work

Correct. Can't boot direct from the DVD because of the lack of full ACPI (starts to boot then BSOD with an ACPI error). The EFI shell hangs at detecting the SATA DVD ROM drive. Copying the contents of the DVD to another hard drive and trying to install that way just made the system hang...

An interesting tidbit of info that I did find, somebody on some other forum somewhere was modifying bioses for some other Arima boards to give full ACPI functionality to allow windows to load. He hadn't done one for this board, nor do I know how you'd even go about flashing this board's bios, but maybe if someone can figure out how to do that we could then use any windows server version.

[shoota]

Cheers Sparky, I've updated the psu detail.

Blake, averaging your numbers there suggest that you're getting 19.97 ppd per mhz. Would you be able to average out your range of 22 days runtime?

Sparky & Shoota, would you also be able to do the same for however long your's have been up and running?

Edit: Something just twigged. The 15.2 ppd per mhz is on Windows x64. I thought Jcool more or less proved that ubuntu produces less points than windows. Or am I mistaken?

Just to check, which linux distro are you all using?

just a quick check puts me at around 15 ppd/mhz. Ubuntu 10.04 64-bit

[shoota]

Depends. I've seen some deltas rated to pull a whopping 16W each although, those would be the ones that scream at 8000RPM and generate a windstorm in the house

I'm running yate loon mediums on my radiators.

alright i looked up my Delta's and i think they are pulling ~13w each! looks like my YL mediums are replacing them asap since they use ~3w

[OldChap]

Sshhhh Don't tell everyone .....the ones I sent out are 1.6A 12v..>..19.2watts

[Kryja]

Aw.. I was kinda hoping that Vapor's thread was wrong

Is this the best $ / ppd system at the moment?

Are there alternatives that might use less power?

An I7 860 setup still holds that crown I believe, as they consume less from the wall?
Just a quick setup I picked out;

i7 860 £211.49
Asus P7P55D-E LX £99.99
Corsair Dominator 4GB £79.89
OCZ ModXStream Pro 600w £64.61
Total £455.98

My quad's cost me

CPU's 8356 x 4 = £151.00
Board = £105.00
Ram 16 x 512mb = £40.00
PSU = £60.00
Heatsinks = ~£50.00
Adapters = ~£8
Total £414.00

You could prob get a cheaper i7 setup than what I picked. It would fit in a standard case. And it would just work out of the box.

But where's the fun in that

[shoota]

Sshhhh Don't tell everyone .....the ones I sent out are 1.6A 12v..>..19.2watts

mine say 1.6A 12V as well but when i googled the model number it said 1.06 for most of the Rev. i'm going to go with the 1.6 on the sticker so i feel even better about switching them out

[s0lid]

Professional & Ultimate will only support 2 CPU sockets. You'd be limited to two Barcys with Pro/Ult...

Server 08/08r2 not working?

Has anyone tried Server 03r2?

2008r2 should work as it's based on windows 7 and they support EFI.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...are-specs.aspx

And every version of 2008r2 supports 4 cpu sockets ecxept foundation version.

[Sparky]

2008r2 should work as it's based on windows 7 and they support EFI.
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsserv...are-specs.aspx

And every version of 2008r2 supports 4 cpu sockets ecxept foundation version.

I know... but I couldn't get the setup to load. If anyone figures out how to get the EFI shell to allow the setup to load, let me know.

[MrMojoZ]

I'll be trying soon. Chips today, power supply+adapters tomorrow. Think I'm short on brackets though, doh.

[shoota]

no biggie you can add the other brackets and cpus later. i wanna see some windows magic out of you lol!

[shoota]

ok new thought: is there any way to adjust the cpu fan speed? they run slower as the bios loads up then ramp up to full speed right before it loads into ubuntu.

[MrMojoZ]

Fan controller! :P

Why are all the decently priced brackets in Hong Kong?

[OldChap]

what do you want the fans to do? full speed from the off? connect direct to psu!

oddly enough on my sm board they spin up full then drop back to temp related speed if allowed in bios.

[jcool]

Very nice work Kryja

[shoota]

what do you want the fans to do? full speed from the off? connect direct to psu!

oddly enough on my sm board they spin up full then drop back to temp related speed if allowed in bios.

this is what i want, mine do the opposite.

[MrMojoZ]

FYI, if you need a cheap graphic card for these there are several x300 PCIe cards on ebay right now for $10 shipped that work great.

[Kryja]

Updated the first post.

I've made a few small amendments here and there and added a couple of Questions & pictures . Again once mine is up and running I'll test the minimum amount of ram these things need to post.

[Anarki]

Got a small problem

I have setup my board with 1 CPU and 4 1GB sticks in CPU0_dimm0-4.

The board boots up woo! But it won't load into the BIOS, it just hangs on "entering setup"

If I don't enter setup the board posts and I can get into the EFI shell, etc.

Also another weird thing is the BIOS loader graphic says OBEY and has a picture of a bloke

[rintamarotta]

I have special plans for my ARIMA with 4 Quad-Core AMD Opteron 8358 2.4Ghz CPU's.

Im going to try how this rig works as how gaming goes gonna put gtx480 or my Ares card to this and bench it

After that, i go and put it as dedicated wcg rig.

Edit: And yeah, i bought one PCIE 2.0 x16 raiser so i dont need care about those caps and buttons.

[D_A]

Got a small problem

I have setup my board with 1 CPU and 4 1GB sticks in CPU0_dimm0-4.

The board boots up woo! But it won't load into the BIOS, it just hangs on "entering setup"

If I don't enter setup the board posts and I can get into the EFI shell, etc.

Also another weird thing is the BIOS loader graphic says OBEY and has a picture of a bloke

Looks like it's been customised to me.

[MrMojoZ]

Looks like it's been customised to me.

Customized by Google no less. Try pulling the battery for awhile and letting the BIOS reset if you haven't already Anarki.

[MrMojoZ]

Im going to try how this rig works as how gaming goes gonna put gtx480 or my Ares card to this and bench it

Hmm, I'm guess not so great on the gaming front. Your Thuban would destroy it for instance.