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austinbike
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by austinbike » Sun Nov 23, 2008 3:58 pm
I updated my HTPC from dual core athlon to quad phenom and my workstation from dual core athlon to quad opteron.
Here are the temps:
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pony-tail
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by pony-tail » Sun Nov 23, 2008 4:54 pm
Was there any noticeable performance gain ?
I was unaware that any Opterons came in socket AM2 , does it fit ( and work ) on all AM2 boards ?
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austinbike
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by austinbike » Sun Nov 23, 2008 5:18 pm
pony-tail wrote:Was there any noticeable performance gain ?
I was unaware that any Opterons came in socket AM2 , does it fit ( and work ) on all AM2 boards ?
Performance is better on multi threaded programs. On single threaded programs I will see a performance hit (2GHz vs. ~2.5GHz).
The board does support some of the dual core opterons but I knew it would work with the quads too.
All of the 1000 series are in AM2 sockets.
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AuraAllan
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by AuraAllan » Mon Nov 24, 2008 10:09 am
Thats some pretty nice results.
How about power consumption?
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austinbike
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by austinbike » Mon Nov 24, 2008 6:14 pm
Unfortunately I didn't bother with the power consumption.
The server had ~42W before and is now ~65.
The HTPC was never measured before so I have no frame of reference.
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Greg F.
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by Greg F. » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:10 am
your cpu fan idles at over 1100 rpm. Doesn't that seem like a lot?
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by dhanson865 » Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:50 am
I thought it was interesting that your hard drive temps dropped in both cases.
Did you change case fans or airflow in any way or is that just a side benefit of reducing total power draw / waste heat from the rest of the system?
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austinbike
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by austinbike » Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:34 pm
Greg F. wrote:your cpu fan idles at over 1100 rpm. Doesn't that seem like a lot?
That's a good question. What are other people seeing from their fans?
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austinbike
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by austinbike » Tue Nov 25, 2008 4:36 pm
Actually, the server has a 4-pin fan (120mm) and that one is running higher speed in idle. The opteron is 75w acp, the phenom is 65w.