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Re: [Xen-users] AMD ATHLON 64 X2 5200+ AM2 and Supermicro H8SMA-2 A64/Op

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Subject: Re: [Xen-users] AMD ATHLON 64 X2 5200+ AM2 and Supermicro H8SMA-2 A64/Opteron a good choice?
From: Tom Brown <tbrown@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2006 15:01:04 -0800 (PST)
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I take that back... I glanced at the supermicro page and saw "Single 
940-pin ZIF Socket" and missed the multiple references to "Socket AM2" ... 

I would _assume_ you could put an X2 in there, but I'm not the expert.

-Tom

On Fri, 22 Dec 2006, Tom Brown wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Dec 2006, Peter Peltonen wrote:
> 
> > I planning to build a xen server with 8GB of memory  (say 15 virtual
> > machines with 512 megs of memory) and a processor that has  hardware
> > support for Xen.
> > 
> > Should these work okay, any opinions?
> > 
> > - Processor: AMD ATHLON 64 X2 5200+ AM2
> > 
> > - Motherboard: Supermicro H8SMA-2 A64/Opteron
> >  http://supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron1000/MCP55/H8SMA-2.cfm
> 
> I don't think you can get an X2 in a 940 pin socket... that's an opteron 
> motherboard... not a socket am2 motherboard... actually, you're not going 

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