Would you buy an Opteron SMP board for enthuthiasts?

[Movieman]

Yes, movieman is trying to pay ASUS to release a modded BIOS to the public. So far he's not making too much progress. ASUS is working on it though, I believe.

That's not what I said.
I said I'd be willing to toss Asus $200.00 towards making a proper adjustable bios.. Very different.
I don't know anyone inside Asus with the power to get that done or I'd have called and asked..

[BeepBeep2]

That's not what I said.
I said I'd be willing to toss Asus $200.00 towards making a proper adjustable bios.. Very different.
I don't know anyone inside Asus with the power to get that done or I'd have called and asked..

Fixed.

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[Movieman]

Tbh....it may seem ignored.....but i assure you it's not.

I can also assure you I am probably in hot water for not ignoring it myself but tbh it's the only way i can currently give anything on intel a run for the money so i figure it's justified.

No reason anyone should be upset with you.
There's a idea here and people exploring it.
Hell, we could find out that the chips won't OC a 100MHz or OC to the sky.
That is the point; finding out.
Not a reason for anger on anyones part and honestly, I can't see any downside to AMD.

Fixed.

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You better hide or that last birthday you just celebrated will be just that..Your last!
"I am 15 going on 16" ..whoops, nope!"

[stangracin3]

You better hide or that last birthday you just celebrated will be just that..Your last!
"I am 15 going on 16" ..whoops, nope!"

[pokipoki]

That's not what I said.
I said I'd be willing to toss Asus $200.00 towards making a proper adjustable bios.. Very different.
I don't know anyone inside Asus with the power to get that done or I'd have called and asked..

IIRC, back in the days of Asus PC-DL & NCCH-DL (xeon boards), bios mods were requested by a member at 2cpu.com (HFU I think), who was/knew a techie at one of the main Asus distributor in the US. I guess they have the clout or the sales volume to make such requests via official support.

These bios mods were not overclocker-friendly, but the basic voltage, multiplier and FSB options were there, although not extreme. Memory straps were achieved via BSEL pin-mods, so it was a combo of hardware and bios tweaks. Memory latencies are done using software in windows. Hardware mods ensures no overclocking can be performed in a server operating environment, just by enthuthiasts. But the bios mods didn't happen overnight, it took quite some time.

Another good enthuthiast board was DH-800 (xeon) from Iwill (now defunct). Iwill also released DK8N which allows Opteron overclocking. Both boards were a hit back then, but Asus PC-DL was cheap and popular.

[Movieman]

IIRC, back in the days of Asus PC-DL & NCCH-DL (xeon boards), bios mods were requested by a member at 2cpu.com (HFU I think), who was/knew a techie at one of the main Asus distributor in the US. I guess they have the clout or the sales volume to make such requests via official support.

These bios mods were not overclocker-friendly, but the basic voltage, multiplier and FSB options were there, although not extreme. Memory straps were achieved via BSEL pin-mods, so it was a combo of hardware and bios tweaks. Memory latencies are done using software in windows. Hardware mods ensures no overclocking can be performed in a server operating environment, just by enthuthiasts. But the bios mods didn't happen overnight, it took quite some time.

Another good enthuthiast board was DH-800 (xeon) from Iwill (now defunct). Iwill also released DK8N which allows Opteron overclocking. Both boards were a hit back then, but Asus PC-DL was cheap and popular.

Your close but the Asus PC-DL was excellent because for $200.00 new you could buy the board, scrounge up apair of 1600/512/400 D1,xeons pin mod the socket( u shaped wire stuck into 2 sockets and bingo: 3200/512/800 ifI remember right.
Also XS's DDTUNG was involved in figuring out the volt mods for them.
Hell, he ran those on DC work and had them to such a fine pitch he was out doing my 3year newer Irwindale dualie..
OT but back in 2004 Isold almost 100 of those 1600 D1's on ebay for $70.00/each before I knew how much they were worth!
They were going for double what I was selling them for.