From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 1 01:54:58 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6DF6416A41C; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 01:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44F2E43D4C; Fri, 1 Jul 2005 01:54:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.NUXI.org (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j611svDQ011502; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.NUXI.org) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.NUXI.org (8.13.4/8.13.1/Submit) id j611svT7011501; Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:54:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:54:57 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: =?unknown-8bit?B?lSCV?= Message-ID: <20050701015457.GC4460@dragon.NUXI.org> References: <200506290818.j5T8IELL002348@peedub.jennejohn.org> <42C3F72E.9070902@speakeasy.net> <8f55402905063018441217c95a@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <8f55402905063018441217c95a@mail.gmail.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Cc: JM , freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: AMD64 X2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2005 01:54:58 -0000 On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 11:44:02AM +1000, ? ? wrote: > Page 2 of the second last link has this to say, regarding > compatibility of the X2 chips with existing motherboards: > http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2397&p=2 > "... > On the desktop, the Athlon 64 X2 series is fully compatible with all > Socket-939 motherboards. All you need is a BIOS update and you're > good to go." > > I'd be truly amazed if this was the case for all motherboards, > although it might be in the spec... It really should be that simple. All the external interfaces and pins are the same for Athlon64-939 and Athlon64 X2. They have the same thermal specifications, etc... -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)