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

[confusis]

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Arima-Quad...item19bf6abd98

came across this and wondered if folks were still doing these.... the point being that it comes with a psu so I wondered if the last of the pins might be identified (the last time I read this thread there were still some unaccounted for)

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/New-AMD-Op...t_11047wt_1163

same psu, same seller. if you check the 2nd pic on the auction page, you can see his PSU doesn't have the 4 pins either!

[AXm77]

I asked if they are willing to sell the PSU seperate.

May I ask why?

Check their pictures:





Connector is wired exactly same as described in first post.

BTW if anyone looking for parts, I have board, PCI video card, memory (16x 1GB 667, 8x 1GB 400)
18 and 16-pin connectors.

[retro77]

May I ask why?

Check their pictures:


Connector is wired exactly same as described in first post.

BTW if anyone looking for parts, I have board, PCI video card, memory (16x 1GB 667, 8x 1GB 400)
18 and 16-pin connectors.

Good eyes! I was hoping it was really wired up.

[stapler117]

I've been looking at quad socket motherboards for some time just for fun. An arima board came up on ebay and after googling the model, this gem of a thread came up.

My main use for it would be any heavy lifting that I need done such as encoding bluray movies, VM's, etc, etc. Spare time will be used for either FAH or WCG. I haven't decided yet.

I wanted to confirm that these parts should (emphasis on should) work together.

Arima 40GCMGO20-D400-100
84350-HE After going back and fourth between the 8352-HE and 8358 SE or 60 SE I decided that performance per watt was more appropriate.
PCI VGA card
PSU (already have). For the moment, I'll use the EPS and PCIE connectors. I would like to sometime make my own custom cables. Getting this to work in the first place is more of a priority
heatsink & fan I would like to eventually put this in a 2U case (or 3U) and rack mount it. I'll probably have to get a new PSU then. These are a lot smaller than I typically use, but from what I've gathered, these CPU's don’t get terribly hot and with the HE series, this should not be an issue. For now, the case will be, well, cardboard
memory: PC2-5300 , 667MHz

As far as an OS is concerned, I was going to go with Ubuntu anyways.

...I'm not forgetting anything am I?

From my understanding, this should work. I just want to make sure from someone who's had more experience with this board's... quirks.

[Sparky]

I approve of the use of cardboard!

Everything there looks good, except the ram. These boards don't take fully buffered memory. Just ECC registered.

[Otis11]

It's probably in this thread somewhere, but I haven't had a chance to look - anyone know where I could get 4 cheap air HS for one of these?

Looking to keep prices down and grow the farm a bit... TIA!

[Sparky]

What, all the LC stuff I sent you wasn't good enough?

[stapler117]

Everything there looks good, except the ram. These boards don't take fully buffered memory. Just ECC registered.

Thanks for the catch! I'll start ordering the parts then. This is the correct ram then, right?

[confusis]

My board be dead

Will be considering another in a wee while, just not for now.

I will update the manual with new info and any suggestions from folks. Download link is still up

[Sparky]

Thanks for the catch! I'll start ordering the parts then. This is the correct ram then, right?

Yessir.

[AXm77]

My board be dead

Will be considering another in a wee while, just not for now.

I will update the manual with new info and any suggestions from folks. Download link is still up

May I ask why ???

[confusis]

Not sure. Fans spin up but no display, etc from the known working CPU/RAM combo. I have one or two more 'tricks' to try when I get time. Hoping I figure something out as I spent $60 on RAM!

I'm in the middle of a gaming/LAN system build so funds are dedicated to that.

[werdwerdus]

i had that problem - power turned on, fans etc spun up, but never posted. tried different pci-e and pci video cards, 1 cpu, 2 cpus, many ram configurations, never got it to post.

[Otis11]

What, all the LC stuff I sent you wasn't good enough?

I just haven't had the time to do a WCing loop (First time dealing with that so a bit iffy) and figured I could get it up on air for now, then use those for another project.

[Jacka]

I will update the manual with new info and any suggestions from folks. Download link is still up

Would you like me to host it on a server more permanently? Let me know if you would.

[confusis]

I have a paid host with unlimited bandwidth, all is well Thanks for the offer though.

[confusis]

Interesting derivative i found: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arima-NK12X-...item35c0c86d39
http://www.rioworks.com/server/Produ...asp?View=NK12X

[stapler117]

Assembled the computer today and I'm happy to report that it works!



mediocre picture is mediocre. I'll take a better one tomorrow along with testing and crunching! The utility of the right is htop. Left of that is the gnome system monitor. The settings on that camera leaves much to be desired.


The banker box is just a tiny bit too small to fit the entire board. lol

Also, anyone recommend a fan control device? I've never used one for fans controlled by the motherboard.

[confusis]

Nice work!

For fan control i just used PWMConfig, but turns out my opterons locked up at 55 degrees :o Wonder if that was a sign the board was on it's way out :/

[retro77]

I love it stapler!!!

Glad to hear it'll be a cruncher

[stapler117]

Tried encoding a DVD earlier today and got some interesting results... since i'm running off a flash drive, my storage is pretty limited so I put the move on a ramdisk (lol more ram than storage) while the output file was saved to a networked ssd drive over gigabit ethernet. Oddly, it only used about 20%-25%(or was it 50%? I'll try again later to confirm). It encoded at 60 fps, which is pretty good, but that's still only as fast as my 1090t in my desktop.

Anyway, I've started WCG and CPU temps seem to be farily stable:
temp1: +42.8°C fan1: 5335 RPM
temp2: +41.2°C fan2: 5172 RPM
temp3: +42.2°C fan3: 5273 RPM
temp4: +41.2°C fan4: 5273 RPM

PWMConfig works wonders on the noise. I might bring them down a bit, but I don't think I'll sleep with it on anyway.

p.s. I don't remember if anyone posted what the green and black buttons do. Well, the black one reboots and the green one shuts down and then powers back up when pressed again.

[confusis]

w00t, board works again. CPU_1's RAM slots are a no-go, but the other 12 slots work fine. socket CPU_1 gave me issues when I first got the board, so I'm not surprised.

*does happy dance*

[stapler117]

Sooooo, I was messing around with http://www.dotsch.de/boinc/Dotsch_UX.html which looks pretty cool. As I was switching my monitor's vga cable over from the desktop that software is running on to the arima board, I briefly lost my balance and ended up knocking the video card halfway out of the pci socket. Immediately the board shut down. I tried turning it back on, but no POST. The fans spin up and the green motherboard light turns on, but then a few seconds later it turns back off. Tried with video card, without video card, Cleared CMOS, tried w/ w/o ram. From what I saw on Google, both the motherboard and video card are completely shot.

I guess I'll just have to order another one... the only question is, do I order number 3 to save on shipping?

[confusis]

Tried a different GPU?

[AXm77]

Where are you in IL? I have one for sale..