AMD dual socket thread

[Kayin]

All right, I got my board.

One of the memory controller heatsinks is missing-what can I do? Glu BGA sinks to it, make a custom block, or what?

[karbonkid]

All right, I got my board.

One of the memory controller heatsinks is missing-what can I do? Glu BGA sinks to it, make a custom block, or what?

eek.. that sucks. Where did you get it? I'd return it if I were you. I was afraid of things like this, which is why i was weary of getting mine off ebay, but it worked out ok. Plus, £90 shipped (brand new and boxed) wasn't a bad price .

PS. ANy motherboards out there that don't require registered ram?
GRR, come ON AMD! I want a black dual socket mb with SB750 and nonreg ram friendly! Like now, dudes

A lot of the boards including the K9ND series (and the equivalent Tyan board - they're pretty much the same boards; AMD reference design) will work with standard DDR2 if you turn off all ECC and Reg. options in BIOS. Apprently, though, Barcelona does not support non-registered memory.

P.S. I might be able to get some cheap FX-74s - Anyone think they'll work in the K9ND?

[Eternalightwith]

A lot of the boards including the K9ND series (and the equivalent Tyan board - they're pretty much the same boards; AMD reference design) will work with standard DDR2 if you turn off all ECC and Reg. options in BIOS. Apprently, though, Barcelona does not support non-registered memory.

P.S. I might be able to get some cheap FX-74s - Anyone think they'll work in the K9ND?

That's what Kayin said. He mentioned fx-74s working too.

The thing I don't understand about barcs not working with non-reg ram is that you can put a barc in a regular mb and use non-reg ram. So it's it the mbs fault?

[karbonkid]

The thing I don't understand about barcs not working with non-reg ram is that you can put a barc in a regular mb and use non-reg ram. So it's it the mbs fault?

You can't put a Barcelona in a "regular" Motherboard - Socket F is a dedicated platform for servers and QuadFX (2 Northbridges + Dual Athlon64 FX), basically the modern-day socket 940. Consumer-level Barcelona is Phenom on AM2, which does, of course support non-reg, but it's still a different platform. Anyway, with anything over 4GB you pretty much need ECC and reg.