Quote Originally Posted by duploxxx View Post
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@s7e9h3n nice to see you have some samples to play with. But Bios does magic in these barcelona figures and behaviour! fixed bios for oem was only released last week. can't you get a 790 board somewhere?
A rd790 board shouldn't be a problem for me to get, BUT a 2s rd790 board is impossible to land....

Quote Originally Posted by generics_user View Post
after reading thorugh these thread i get the feeling that s7 is running on a x1 ht link multiplier (according to CPU-Z), maybe that's the problem with these benches

i can't try it myself because the only 2s system i have is the ones of my dad and this is a first gen 940 board running 2 265 cpus , but all the screens of K8 cpus show the correct ht link speed...

and s7 s DC optys also show the correct ht link ( do they run in the same board as the quads???)
CPU-Z is giving a bugged reading and the DC opties are running in my Asus L1N64

Quote Originally Posted by tsuehpsyde View Post
Well I just found out we have a pair of Barcelonas at work (2347s) and have this entire week and noone told me. But when I found out last night, I asked about them and they tried booting them on our current Tyan motherboard we had for the 2P Opteron platform. However, it won't boot (or wouldn't last night, anyway). The product guy should be in today, and I'm going to see if I can help him get it booted with at least one proc. I'll post the motherboard we have when I get a chance, but again, not sure what it is at this point.

Also, I think we have 0721s while s7 has 0725s so we probably have B0s I'm guessing. I now feel s7's pain of having two procs to try out and not being able to. Argh.
If the bios is from Tyan, you're going to have some major issues booting the board. The Tyan I used was running a custom bios from AMD which [allegedly ] allowed the cpu's to function properly.