Opterons and heat

TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
edited January 2004 in Hardware
Ok I just bit the bullet and got a msi k8d dual operton board with 3 pci-x slots and a single 240 opteron for now. Anyone know if these suckers are running hot and/or need special cooling etc.. I can grab a volcano 8 real cheap ($15) and since I don't oc these things was hoping that would suffice.

Tex

Comments

  • Geeky1Geeky1 University of the Pacific (Stockton, CA, USA)
    edited December 2003
    EVERYTHING needs special cooling :D

    You know if two of those Zalman CNPS7000A-ALCUs will fit?
  • DogSoldierDogSoldier The heart of radical Amish country..
    edited December 2003
    Get a Fantom Fury and run it through the case.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited December 2003
    No everything doesn't need special cooling. I been running the tbreds in my dualies with $11 coolermasters and there is only a couple degrees differance between them and sk7's and noisy fans.

    lets see... silence with $11 coolermasters or noisy with $25 Sk7's that don't seem to buy me much of anything.....? Hmmmmm let me think about this one more time...

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited December 2003
    Have no idea what a "fantom fury" is or what "running it thru the case" means either but since these are dualies in 19" rack mounted cases I'm betting its not the solution I'm looking for. I'm looking for standard clipon HSF's. No OC'ing at all. I just want to know from anyone thats ran one... what kind of temps to expect. Are they running hot? Will stock cooling suffice? I'm betting stock coolingwill work OK.

    tex
  • ShortyShorty Manchester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    Tex...

    Ignore the slightly dumber comments :rolleyes: and take it from someone whos actually seen, installed and used an opteron processor.

    They run cold. Seriously. After 4 hours of looping 100% CPU usage.. it was cold to the touch. The stock heatsinks are absolutely fine and they are just no thrills jobs.

    When you receive the board, check it has sinks on the mosfets to the lower right hand side. MSI let some boards out of the door before they did this as a permanent mod. Thats your only real worry and if the case has basic cooling, it wont matter too much.
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited December 2003
    And I will be selling two maybe even three dual AMD boards due to this upgrade. I have a fresh MSI k7d on its way from msi as we speak on a RMA replacement. Expected delivery is 1-6-03 I will sell and a asus A7m266-d dualie also and a pair of modded 1600 XP's id anyone is interested.

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited December 2003
    And shorty asked what I paid for the msi kd8. it was $260 plus change. Opteron was $175.

    Tex
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited December 2003
    No "Frills" Shorty, "Frills" :)

    Why did they bother making the Opteron 1XX series when the 2XX series allows for 1 or 2 processor boards? Seems kind of pointless....
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    I would think the 2xx is more expensive. And why pay for extra HT link that you cant even use in a single CPU board.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    I concur with Shorty.

    They do run cold. The OEM coolermaster sinks allow it to hover in the LOW 100s.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    I would think the 2xx is more expensive. And why pay for extra HT link that you cant even use in a single CPU board.

    True, but AMD could have made the 2XX cheaper without making the 1XX at all as they would have saved on having to design the other chip, and having the pay for the other fabrication plants.
  • primesuspectprimesuspect Beepin n' Boopin Detroit, MI Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    But AMD needs to make money.....
  • mmonninmmonnin Centreville, VA
    edited January 2004
    It didnt take any more to design a 1xx chip but rather a 2xx/4xx/8xx chip takes more and more to design to make sure it can communicate on all its HT links. It takes more and more testing to make sure it all works correctly. Thus the reason the 1xx is the cheapest, it takes less R&D.
  • EnverexEnverex Worcester, UK Icrontian
    edited January 2004
    mmonnin wrote:
    It didnt take any more to design a 1xx chip but rather a 2xx/4xx/8xx chip takes more and more to design to make sure it can communicate on all its HT links. It takes more and more testing to make sure it all works correctly. Thus the reason the 1xx is the cheapest, it takes less R&D.

    You dont get my point. It cost to develop both chips, and it costs for plants for both types of chip. My point was that it would have removed the cost to design the 1XX and that there wouldn't be the costs of an extra different fabrication plant too. So that the savings made from having to run and maintain an extra plant, and the costs for designing the 1XX initially could have been put into running the 2XX, making it cheaper due to less overall expendature.
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