AMD dual socket thread

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s7e9h3n's thread is getting long in the tooth, so I'm making my own. Everyone is of course welcome to post their experiences here too.

My setup:
Board: ASUS L1N64WS/B SLI
Cpu: AMD Opteron 2347 rev. BA
Gpu: MSI 7900GTO
Ram: Kingston DDR2 reg/ecc 800MHz - 2*2GB

First some pictures of my setup:
Board:

As most people probably know, the WS/B board is a refurbished WS board, with a nice little paper sticker to differ it from the original Quadfather board. Classy
Cpu:

Notice the "one letter too short" batch code. Hm, strange. Production sample?? With batch date 0734, it was made in the third week of august 2007. EDIT: got my second cpu
Ram:

2*2GB modules with Elpida chips for CL 6 rating at 1,8v

Gfx:

7900GTO @720/835MHz cooled by swiftec block.

It's going to be cooled by this:

plus a Zalman 9700 for the second CPU (until I get another cpu block + loop)




So far I have only tested that the board actually posts, wich it does. As you can see from pic of POST, the board has been shipped with the old 0401 BIOS wich is not at the ASUS site anymore. A BIOS flash is in order.

I will install my setup in the box later this week if I find some spare time. ATM I have it like this:


It seems the Opteron 2347's nb runs at 1400MHz at stock, that would make a NB FID of 7 by default, unlike its Phenom cousins that run their NB at 1800/2000MHz.

I will place my setup in my Lian Li 6070scand rev2 cabinet until I can get hold of a E-ATX cabinet, aiming for a CM Stacker I think. It will be tight, but using watercooling it will/have to fit.

Next upgrade(s) to the setup is:

One more 2347. Secondhand [CHECK!]
one or two 9800GTX (price drops makes these a nice buy, secondhand of course as everyone must have the GTX280, selling their "old" 9800GTXs cheap, smartasses )
2*2gb of ram totalling 8gb wich is max for this board.
CM Stacker
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Longterm: 2* Istanbul with a total of 12 cores, wich seems to be as far as socket L1/F/1207 goes