Opteron

Brief

Using the same architecture as the Athlon64 the Opteron is AMDs server standard CPU and is designed to work in multiple CPU motherboards

Current Socket Format

Socket 940

• Dual Channel RAM (DDR SDRAM)

Future Socket Format

Socket F (1207 pin)

Source of Info

• Looks similar to Intel's current LGA775 format.
• Supports DDR II 533, 667 and 800 speeds
• Integrated PCI-Express controller on CPU

(This explains why pin-count went up by 300-pins!)

• Pictures of Socket F can be found here.

== Motherboards known to be compatible with Dual-core Opterons (DRAFT) == ( by Stmok 15:28, 16 Jul 2005 (EST) )

Dual-Socket

Arima

• HDAMA rev.G (since BIOS ver : 2.07 or higher)

=> http://www.arima.com.tw/server/Product/ViewProduct.asp?View=HDAMA%20rev.G (Thanks to B.Slisk from 2cpu.com forums)

ASUS

• K8N-DL (tested with Opteron 875 over here: http://firingsquad.com/hardware/amd_dual-core_opteron_875/default.asp)

=> http://www.asus.com.tw/products4.aspx?l1=9&l2=39&l3=174&model=456&modelmenu=1

Iwill

• DK8X (since BIOS ver : V221)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=28

• DK8N (since BIOS ver : V110)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=27

• DK8ES (since BIOS ver : V1.2)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=91&sp=Y

• DK8EW ("NVIDIA CK804 does not support dual core under Linux yet, only under Microsoft Windows".)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=96&sp=Y

• DK8S2 (since BIOS ver : V1.2...ALSO NOTE : "NVIDIA CK804 does not support dual core under Linux yet, only under Microsoft Windows".)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=91&sp=Y

• DK8S2 (since BIOS ver : V1.70)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=42&sp=Y

• DK8S2-SATA (since BIOS ver : 1.4 for E0 rev CPU, 1.6 for E1 rev CPU)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=43&sp=Y

• DK8S2-IB (since BIOS ver : 1.6)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=24&sp=Y#

• DK8S2-64 (since BIOS ver : 1.6)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=24&sp=Y#

MSI

• K8D Master 3-133 FS and K8D Master 3-133 FA4R (since BIOS ver : BIOS V2.40)

=> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=560

• K8N Master2-FAR (supports dual-core Opterons straight out of the box)

=> http://www.msi.com.tw/program/products/server/svr/pro_svr_detail.php?UID=613

Supermicro

NOTE: *UPDATE (July 31st 2005)* Supermicro now has AMD mobos and systems on their official site. Supermicro labels them as "A+ Products". => http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/

• Supermicro H8DCE

=> http://www.rackmountpro.com/productpage.php?prodid=2287

• SuperMicro A+ H8DAR-8

=> http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=110682&Category_Code=OMB

• SuperMicro A+ H8DA8

=> http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=110681&Category_Code=OMB

Tyan

Confirmed by this list.

=> http://www.tyan.com/support/html/cpu_athlon_duron_opteron.html

• Thunder K8WE

=> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8we.html

• Thunder K8SE

=> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8se.html

• Thunder K8SRE

=> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8sre.html

• Thunder K8W

=> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8w.html

• Thunder K8SD Pro

=> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8sdpro.html

• Thunder K8SR

=> http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8sr.html

Small Form Factor

Iwill

• ZMAXdp (since BIOS ver : V115)

=> http://www.iwill.net/product_2.asp?p_id=36

Sources and Links

AMD Multi-Core Technology

=> http://multicore.amd.com/Global/