From: Tim Chipman (tchipman@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Sep 07 2006 - 13:54:36 EDT
Hi all,
Small fun question (not covered in archives, nor google):
has anyone ever upgraded a w1100z "sun java workstation" (Intended for
Opteron 144/146/148/150 CPUs which are socket 939 single-core) to a "more
recent" CPU such as an AMD_Athlon-64"x2" socket939 (dual core) ? (Or barring
that, a dual-core Opteron socket 939 part .. ?) (Clearly -- a cpu not
bought from Sun clearly, and not officially supported in this box clearly).
I believe it is more a feature of bios for the motherboard rather than a
physical issue which will be the constraint here.
I'll probably test this next week "for fun" as I've got a new Generic Athlon
X2 workstation arriving next week .. but I thought it might be nice to see
if anyone else has comments/thoughts about this.
Clearly it will void warranties, will not be supported by sun, etc. That is
not a concern here. I have someone with one of these workstations that is a
few years old, has a 1.8ghz CPU .. and would not be unhappy to have a
dual-core 2.2ghz cpu if it were available for "small cost" (the athlon64"x2"
2.2gig dual core is ~$200 canadian these days I believe)
Many thanks,
--Tim Chipman
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