Opteron 242? 244? 246?

[salami1212]

Well. Ive seen these and they are really cheap? Why are they and are they dual core opterons? Also, whats the difference between 1 way, 2 way, 4 way and 8 way?
Cheers

 

[ps3ud0]

Well. Ive seen these and they are really cheap? Why are they and are they dual core opterons? Also, whats the difference between 1 way, 2 way, 4 way and 8 way?
Cheers

These are Socket 940 Opterons so wont fit in normal Socket 939 mobos like the new type of Opteron and need expensive things like registered memory (only some of the 1xx series are Socket 939 compatible, its safer to assume all others arent)...

The 1/2/4/8-way just describes how many you can put together in a multi-processor environment - i.e. with 8xx you could have upto 8 CPUs

HTH

ps3ud0

 

[StarShock]

I think they are single core chips, and the 1s are for single chip sytems and 2s are for double chip systems and so on,

they may be cheep but you have to buy 2 of them and the Mobos are more expensive and because they are desighned for servers they don't have the same features as normal motherboards, very few have PCI-E or even AGP so not great if you want a gaming machine

 

[dual2max]

Operton 240 to 254 are single core & 260 to 285 are dual core.
The Tyan K8WE is one of the latest mobos to support 2xx opts. You can run one cpu and one pci-e gpu. Two cpu's means 32 speed pci-e
You will need ECC Registered RAM. (c.£80 per gig)

The bargain at the moment is 250's. E4 stepping 1Ghz HT & 2.4Ghz Fequency

I've clocked mine to 3.1Ghz. Though not for long...