OT: dual-core or 64 bit?

[Jonathan Berry]

On 2/3/07, Thomas Cameron <thomas.cameron at camerontech.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-01-31 at 08:56 -0700, Anthony Joseph Seward wrote:
> > On Tue, 2007-01-30 at 23:03 +0000, David Fletcher wrote:
> > <snip>
> > > Are there chips available now that have Pacifica (such as the AMD Opterons) or
> > > are they not out yet?
> > >
> >
> > I went to http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HVM_Compatible_Processors
> > before choosing which processor to get.
>
> I have a KN8 SLI(NF-CK804) motherboard with an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual
> Core Processor 4600+ according to dmidecode, but it is an older one with
> no svm processor flag.
>
> Does anyone know if this board supports the new AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2
> Dual Core Processors with svm?  Are they different pinouts?
>
> In other words, do I have to rip out the board and the CPU, or just the
> CPU?

You have to change out the CPU, motherboard, and RAM.  Only the Socket
AM2 processors have the svm extension, which is a new socket and only
supports DDR2 memory (no DDR support).  So, yeah, it's not an simple,
cheap upgrade, unfortunately.

Jonathan