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AMD Opteron Coverage - Part 1: Intro to Opteron/K8 Architecture

by Anand Lal Shimpi on 4/23/2003 3:03:14 AM
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Opteron Chipsets

We have seen a plethora of chipsets for the forthcoming Athlon 64, but for Opteron there didn't seem to be that much support outside of AMD's own solution.

The AMD 8000 series works just as well with the Opteron as it will with the Athlon 64, and that's the chipset you'll see on virtually all Opteron based systems. Because AMD is focusing this launch on the enterprise market, none of the current Opteron boards feature AMD's 8151 AGP Tunnel, thus we have no AGP slots on any of the Opteron boards we have our hands on.

The AMD-8111 HyperTransport I/O Hub (aka South Bridge)

The AMD-8131 HyperTransport PCI-X Tunnel

Sigh, Opteron Nomenclature Opteron Chipsets Continued - Introducing nForce3 Professional

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No Subject by skunklet on Thursday, June 30, 2005

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@anshelsag haha yeah, too late, clicked the wrong button :)

Will be doing power and perf comparison between the old and new configs over the coming weeks. For now, it's bedtime

That was high-end back in 2006 - 8 cores in a 4U box, now we have 12 in a 2U box

Finally carried our old DB server up to the lab: four socket, dual-core Opteron 880 based HP ProLiant DL585 http://t.co/ftyi8BPF

@ozym4ndias @wilshipley @pmod not really, not internal at least. here's a hint: http://t.co/iv6wXn7I :)

@RandomMegaBytes the 512GB drive won't actually update to the latest firmware, but the 128/256GB drives are very quick

@pmod IVB gives you the same memory bandwidth as SNB, likely see DDR3-1600 in mobile

@wilshipley @pmod remember with Ivy Bridge TDPs don't actually go down, in 2013 that will change though...

@wilshipley @pmod The Pro won't go away entirely, but we will see a trend towards thinner notebooks in general.

@PlugPulled this was the last one we did: http://t.co/cwX0YoKG