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Oct 22, 2009, 3:02:12 PM10/22/09
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I currently have an AMD Athlon XP, 1658 MHz (6.25 X 265) CPU installed.

I would like to run some software that requires at least an AMD Opteron.

Can this be achieved with the socket, or will it require a new mb?
If it can be done, which cpu's will qualify?

Paul

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Oct 22, 2009, 12:02:42 PM10/22/09
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In round numbers, the top of the line is AthlonXP 3200+ which runs at
2200MHz and is 11x200 multiplier. The FSB is FSB400, the clock input
to the processor is 200MHz.

Your processor could be 12.5 x 133 = 1667 or so. So the input clock
to the processor could be 133. Multipliers are available in half
integer values. This is a table of some S462 products.

Family Core P.R. Pkg CPU Cache Mult Core Tmax Power
Freq Clk Volts

XP Model 10 2200 (3200+) OPGA 200 512 11x 1.65V 85oC 60.4W
Barton 2100 (3000+) OPGA 200 512 10.5x 1.65V 85oC 53.7W

XP Model 10 2167 (3000+) OPGA 166 512 13x 1.65V 85oC 58.4W
Barton 2083 (2800+) OPGA 166 512 12.5x 1.65V 85oC 53.7W
1917 (2600+) OPGA 166 512 11.5x 1.65V 85oC 53.7W
1833 (2500+) OPGA 166 512 11x 1.65V 85oC 53.7W

XP Model 8 2167 (2700+) OPGA 166 256 13x 1.65V 85oC 62.0W
Thoroughbred 2083 (2600+) OPGA 166 256 12.5x 1.65V 85oC 62.0W

XP Model 8 2133 (2600+) OPGA 133 256 16x 1.65V 85oC 62.0W
Thoroughbred 2000 (2400+) OPGA 133 256 15x 1.65V 85oC 62.0W
CPU ID 0681 1800 (2200+) OPGA 133 256 13.5x 1.60V 85oC 57.0W
1733 (2100+) OPGA 133 256 13x 1.60V 90oC 56.3W
1667 (2000+) OPGA 133 256 12.5x 1.60V 90oC 55.7W
1533 (1800+) OPGA 133 256 11.5x 1.60V 90oC 55.7W
1467 (1700+) OPGA 133 256 11x 1.60V 90oC 55.7W

XP Model 8 1800 (2200+) OPGA 133 256 13.5x 1.65V 85oC 61.7W
Thoroughbred 1733 (2100+) OPGA 133 256 13x 1.60V 90oC 56.4W
CPU ID 0680 1667 (2000+) OPGA 133 256 12.5x 1.65V 90oC 54.7W
1667 (2000+) OPGA 133 256 12.5x 1.60V 90oC 54.7W
1600 (1900+) OPGA 133 256 12x 1.50V 90oC 47.7W
1533 (1800+) OPGA 133 256 11.5x 1.50V 90oC 46.3W
1467 (1700+) OPGA 133 256 11x 1.50V 90oC 44.9W

XP Model 6 1733 (2100+) OPGA 133 256 13x 1.75V 90oC 64.3W
Palomino 1667 (2000+) OPGA 133 256 12.5x 1.75V 90oC 62.5W
1600 (1900+) OPGA 133 256 12x 1.75V 90oC 60.7W
1533 (1800+) OPGA 133 256 11.5x 1.75V 90oC 59.2W
1467 (1700+) OPGA 133 256 11x 1.75V 90oC 57.4W
1400 (1600+) OPGA 133 256 10.5x 1.75V 90oC 56.3W
1333 (1500+) OPGA 133 256 10x 1.75V 90oC 53.8W

Motherboards with Nforce2 are good candidates for just about
anything in that table.

But I doubt any of them will match an Opteron. Opterons come
in different sizes as well, so such a descriptive term would
cover a lot of territory.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opteron

Maybe you could search around, and see if someone is running
the unnamed application on a weaker processor.

This would be faster than your current processor, and it
is about $100. There are plenty of processors which would
be more powerful, but hard to match on price.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819103680

A motherboard for $100. Asus M4A78 PRO.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131362

CPU support table for that motherboard.

http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/cpusupport.aspx?SLanguage=en-us&model=M4A78%20Pro

HTH,
Paul

Jan Alter

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Oct 22, 2009, 11:54:51 AM10/22/09
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The page below lists the cpus that seem to fall into the socket 462 (socket
A) category that your Athlon is running.
Looking at this you should be able to get a quick idea which sockets are
available at this point, including AM2, and AM3 that would run the Opteron.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_A


The next AMD socket level (939), was when the Opteron started being used.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opteron

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kony

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Oct 23, 2009, 12:48:38 AM10/23/09
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It might help if you told us which software, sometimes
software developers make generic recommendations that don't
really have much to do with the CPU performance needed, it's
more like they're taking a shortcut to specify the age of
system.

Regardless if you really need an Opteron (how fast, it isn't
only one "speed"?) then you'll probably need a new
motherboard, CPU, and DDR2 or 3 memory at the very least.

Guy

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Oct 22, 2009, 7:17:20 PM10/22/09
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I have an older system (ca 2004 build) with an Athlon 3000 on a CT-7NJL6
motherboard with 1GB of RAM.

Is the software public domain? If possible I could try running it.

If you can find an Athlon chip for your board it will most likely be
used and not cost very much.


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