7 Mar
2004
7 Mar
'04
21:12
I'm sure I've seen dual Athlon 64 mobo's on sale and a friend and I have discussed watching the price drops on them, it could be they didn't make a distinction between Athlon64 and Opteron, caveat emptor perhaps? -- i.e you could buy one of those boards and 2 Athlon 64 CPU's and discover you have a spare CPU you can't use.
nope. the athlon 64 uses a 764-pin connection to the motherboard while the athlon 64 fx and opteron use a 940-pin connection. pretty soon the athlon 64 fx will switch to a 939-pin so it won't require use of registered ram. those extra pins provide the second memory channel and extra hypertransport channels that philipp was talking about. -- trey