Building a Sossaman rig?

[Sparky]

Crap. I hate it when that happens

[NKrader]

Status update.
Got following:
2x SL8WT's
4x 1GB ECC REG 400MHz DDR2s
1x Board that doesn't work...

The board powers on soon as i plug in the power (not a good sign). All diagnostic leds ligth up as amber and there's no vcore.
There isn't physically anything broken (already swapped one burned fet). Also the smaller heatsink gets hot really fast (Pci-e switch?) so it migth also be toast.

Oh well i better start looking for new board and dissassemble this for spare parts.

i leave em stock now..

i had the same thing happen after changing the tim on on north and southbridge sinks.. board worked fine before.

was prob me..but

[tiro_uspsss]

yeah the NB on the Tyan gets nice'n'warm; so does the ram surprisingly! I have an Antec tri-speed 140mm fan covering CPU, NB, & RAM, set to hi-speed

[tiro_uspsss]

in desperation:

http://www.bios-mods.com/forum/Threa...e-motherboards



I so hope someone helps!

[NKrader]

haha, sammy cpus back down in price.

50c each. if only the other parts were so cheap still. id have to make myself a cluster lol.. (or 2$ each, depending how you look at it)

http://www.ebay.com/itm/50x-Intel-Xe...item20c3004d94

[Movieman]

haha, sammy cpus back down in price.

50c each. if only the other parts were so cheap still. id have to make myself a cluster lol..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/50x-Intel-Xe...item20c3004d94

Ahh,well..Last time I checked when you bought 50 items for $100.00 that meant they were $2.00 each not 50 cents..
Still a heck of a deal..I still have maybe 6 cpu's and 3 boards

[NKrader]

Ahh,well..Last time I checked when you bought 50 items for $100.00 that meant they were $2.00 each not 50 cents..
Still a heck of a deal..I still have maybe 6 cpu's and 3 boards

... lol.. my math skills are strong.

i have 4 cpus, 4 heatsinks, 2 backplates, enough ram..

and 1 board.. LOL

[Movieman]

... lol.. my math skills are strong.

i have 4 cpus, 4 heatsinks, 2 backplates, enough ram..

and 1 board.. LOL

Stop over the house some night and I'll give you a board and hold those heat sinks..
None left in the known universe!

[JAWS]

Stop over the house some night and I'll give you a board and hold those heat sinks..
None left in the known universe!

Dave what do you mean...the mobos have dried up? Damn that's a nice deal on the cpus....I paid $90 for 2 LOL

[NKrader]

Dave what do you mean...the mobos have dried up? Damn that's a nice deal on the cpus....I paid $90 for 2 LOL

the heatsinks.

mobos are more now too..

[Sparky]

If I could still get a board for 10 bucks I'd build another sossaman rig for $30-$40 just for the heck of it

*edit* whoa I didn't realize that to get those chips for $2/ea I'd have to buy the whole 50 piece lot! never mind

[tiro_uspsss]

If I could still get a board for 10 bucks I'd build another sossaman rig for $30-$40 just for the heck of it

*edit* whoa I didn't realize that to get those chips for $2/ea I'd have to buy the whole 50 piece lot! never mind

If I could get a mobo for $10 I'd pop in two meroms just to see what happens!

[NKrader]

If I could still get a board for 10 bucks I'd build another sossaman rig for $30-$40 just for the heck of it

*edit* whoa I didn't realize that to get those chips for $2/ea I'd have to buy the whole 50 piece lot! never mind

If I could get a mobo for $10 I'd pop in two meroms just to see what happens!

you know what this means.

DAAAAVEEE. call them and set em straight. we need our 9.99 mobos back..

[Origin_Unknown]

"Not Available to United Kingdom" HMPH!

although i do have 4 cpus spare but i'm having to start thinking about what i actually want to do with my current sossy, poor thing hasn't even been turned on for months

[NKrader]

"Not Available to United Kingdom" HMPH!

although i do have 4 cpus spare but i'm having to start thinking about what i actually want to do with my current sossy, poor thing hasn't even been turned on for months

i think im gona find a case for mine and put in closet for nas or somthing.

[Origin_Unknown]

i think im gona find a case for mine and put in closet for nas or somthing.

i used mine as a nas as well then i decided to get something smaller - i seem to have deleted the photo of it though :|

[tiro_uspsss]

Sadly, I don't think it'll work with two regular Meroms, but there's a slight chance that with a BIOS overhaul it could support one Merom.
Without the mythical Merom-MP chips, this platform is dead in the water.
I say that, but my brother uses my Supermicro Sammy as his daily driver desktop. Win 7 32-bit with a PAE kernel to use the 16 GB RAM. He's got a Geforce GTX 460 in there for gaming too and it's running strong.

these sossaman chips have not had anything altered to allow them to run in a MP environment
they are just yonah chips with altered micro-code(?) so they simply appear as Xeons

"Not Available to United Kingdom" HMPH!

although i do have 4 cpus spare but i'm having to start thinking about what i actually want to do with my current sossy, poor thing hasn't even been turned on for months

I msg'd the seller before, sometime ago, last year I think - check some posts back, I got him to post international for all here, I bought some myself as well!

[tiro_uspsss]

Are you sure about that?
I thought that these Sossaman chips were Yonah with added arbitration logic for SMP operation.
Microcode is really only there to bootstrap the device after software bug-fixing of hardware errors, I'm not convinced the microcode is enough to enable SMP operation.
Remember, microcode is a temporary binary patch loaded by BIOS at boot time. When you boot Windows or Linux (and I assume Mac OS X as well, but I don't know for certain) part of the system start up is to load the microcode updates on every boot since it's non-permanent.
Besides all of that, I've tried booting the motherboard with both Yonah and Merom in there and it won't even boot. If you look at the technical papers you'll see the pin assignments are not exactly the same.

after your post, no, I'm not so sure!
you've tried? RATS! KILL JOY!

[profsegp]

Hey guys, I just found this thread about these xeon CPUs. I have a question... Can I use this CPU in a micro ATX Q35-Q45 chipset? Thanks

[D_A]

No. They only work in a very limited number of chipsets and three motherboards total. They're all listed in this thread.

[profsegp]

thanks! well, it's kind of hard going back 2222 posts to find that thread! could you give me a link!

[D_A]

Intel SE7520BB2D2: http://www.intel.com/p/en_US/support...er/se7520bb2d2
Supermicro X6DLP-EG2: http://www.supermicro.com/products/m.../x6dlp-eg2.cfm
Supermicro X6DLP-4G2 (a variation of the above): http://www.supermicro.com/products/m.../x6dlp-4g2.cfm
Tyan Tiger i7520SD (S5365): http://www.tyan.com/archive/products...eri7520sd.html

The Intel board is the only one you will find at less than OMGWTF prices unless you're REALLY lucky or "know someone".
The caveat with the Intel board being that it requires a very specific heat sink, Intel part ABBHEATSINK, which is now officially rarer than rocking horse "shavings". No other heat sink will fit without extensive mucking about. The chip is a S479 but the HS mounts are the same spacing as S771 Xeons but with a unique stand-off height. The Tyan and SM boards are more friendly in that regard but WAY more expensive.

[NKrader]

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TYAN-S5365G3...item5d30310e5a

189obo, is still high but considering the abba heatsinks are hard to find and the intel board costs the better part of 60$ after shipping.



on a side note i feel so much nicer for giving away 2x of said heatsinks dispite the fact that i paid like 5$ shipped for em. ah the good ole days.

[profsegp]

Thanks for the response! I thought I can use these CPUs in some laptops or micro ATX boards such as P096C from Dell Studio Hybrid 140G. Well, I was too excited! lol I will go with a dell T7400 with 2 L5420. That's the cheapest system you can get.

[D_A]

Yep, definitely the cheapest system you can get
http://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=dell+t7400

You sure you're not trolling?