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

[AmiJIm]

Heat Pipe sinks work the best,and yes i use them for all 4 cpus,one for the northbridge and two for the 4850 cores.
I am a mod member at 2cpu.com but now in the 4way days,i myself belong among another bred of enthusiasts.
Vile 4 way QUad opterons!

[D_A]

Quad socket boards ... four times the number of things to go wrong, but 2^4 times the WIN when they go right!

[retro77]

I'll send another pic of my non-ghetto setup once I get the cables dressed up. Which should be tonight...

[Sparky]

I kinda want a real case that I can mount this board in. BUT it would also need to hold both radiators, and that may be a little on the huge (and heavy) side

[shoota]

by real do you mean a predefined metal box made by a company or wooden cabinet made to fit? cuz if it's the former i hear ya. but in reality the weed cabinet fits my needs perfectly, kinda like your cardboard case lol

[Sparky]

Well wood is just extremely heavy lol. I mean a relatively normal metal case. But odds are that it will stay in the cardboard "case"

[retro77]

by real do you mean a predefined metal box made by a company or wooden cabinet made to fit? cuz if it's the former i hear ya. but in reality the weed cabinet fits my needs perfectly, kinda like your cardboard case lol

Do you keep your weed in there?

[shoota]

Omg! How did that happen?!? Lol phone typing ftl

[retro77]

Upgrade today:


PS: I forgot to get that last retention bracket today.

[Origin_Unknown]

I want one now
£100ish for the board approx with shipping .... hmmmm

[retro77]

Update: So the 430w power supply may not work. Board powers up for a few seconds, then powers back down. Back on the 650w, POST just fine. What's the minimum anyone is running with one hard drive, a small video card and four CPUs? I really don't want to run a monster power supply if I don't have to. Maybe a 500? 550? Hmmm....

[Jacka]

Update: So the 430w power supply may not work. Board powers up for a few seconds, then powers back down. Back on the 650w, POST just fine. What's the minimum anyone is running with one hard drive, a small video card and four CPUs? I really don't want to run a monster power supply if I don't have to. Maybe a 500? 550? Hmmm....

Which CPUs did you get?

[Origin_Unknown]

will that 400w psu in your sig be enough for those boards jacka?

[Jacka]

Four 79W CPUs and a single HDD. Will be more than enough.

[AmiJIm]

Success! flash rom did the job correclty!!!!
I am on the 1.0.4 ec x64 bios and i can now get into the bios set up .I enabled the extra two usb ports from the header found next to the battery coin.
I will pass the bios to the gurus at mydigitalline and let us hope the modders will get us full ACPI support.
Bottom is:
If yours arima does not get into the bios and you experience strange bios behavior ,update bios using flashrom and start crunching.
Many greeting to Mr shoota at this point for his help.
Does anyone runns on a newer bios version out there?
1.0.4 ec - of 3 - 3- 08 is the latest known bios.

[Rise]

can anyone verify this ram *should* work before I drop a Benjamin on it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kingston-4x1GB-P...item3a609ff458

ty


also - I like the farm shoota

[Rise]

Update: So the 430w power supply may not work. Board powers up for a few seconds, then powers back down. Back on the 650w, POST just fine. What's the minimum anyone is running with one hard drive, a small video card and four CPUs? I really don't want to run a monster power supply if I don't have to. Maybe a 500? 550? Hmmm....

looks like I'm back to getting the 650W XFX single rail

thanks for verifying this though, it was worth a try!

[shoota]

Success! flash rom did the job correclty!!!!
I am on the 1.0.4 ec x64 bios and i can now get into the bios set up .I enabled the extra two usb ports from the header found next to the battery coin.
I will pass the bios to the gurus at mydigitalline and let us hope the modders will get us full ACPI support.
Bottom is:
If yours arima does not get into the bios and you experience strange bios behavior ,update bios using flashrom and start crunching.
Many greeting to Mr shoota at this point for his help.
Does anyone runns on a newer bios version out there?
1.0.4 ec - of 3 - 3- 08 is the latest known bios.

alright! i'm glad it worked. i'm looking forward to seeing if the modders can work their magic

can anyone verify this ram *should* work before I drop a Benjamin on it?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Kingston-4x1GB-P...item3a609ff458

ty


also - I like the farm shoota

that ram should work. but you don't need 8gb for one board unless you have a specific reason for it. i have four gb and i've never seen over 2.1gb usage

[Rise]

alright! i'm glad it worked. i'm looking forward to seeing if the modders can work their magic



that ram should work. but you don't need 8gb for one board unless you have a specific reason for it. i have four gb and i've never seen over 2.1gb usage

oooh, i was under the impression that I needed 2 per CPU. thanks for clearing it up

[shoota]

i'm pretty darn sure there is no ram-filling requirement as long as the first bank is populated

[Rise]

Well, it's all been ordered. And I went with the 750W corsair PSU listed in the OP. It's only $5 more expensive but it has free shipping so it ends up being the same price as the XFX I posted AND it also has a MIR so it might be a good deal for anyone in the market.

4GB ram has been ordered, as well as the heatsinks.

SCHWEET! If all goes well (fingers crossed) it should be up and running by the end of next week

[shoota]

that-a-boy johnny!

[retro77]

Which CPUs did you get?

I have 8347's. Four of them.

[Jacka]

I have 8347's. Four of them.

95/115W TDP. Average CPU power of 75W, so in realistic terms you'll be drawing a continuous 300W from 12V and a little extra for the motherboard, hard disks, fans, etc. Corsair CX450 is capable of continuous 450W without dropping much below 80+ specs, so it'd be fine for even the higher TDP setups.

[shoota]

95/115W TDP. Average CPU power of 75W, so in realistic terms you'll be drawing a continuous 300W from 12V and a little extra for the motherboard, hard disks, fans, etc. Corsair CX450 is capable of continuous 450W without dropping much below 80+ specs, so it'd be fine for even the higher TDP setups.

that setup with a pci card and a laptop hard drive pulls ~380W. figure in a little more powerful gpu, a desktop hard drive, extra fans and such and a 450w will start being pushed pretty hard