Upgrade to opteron, change bios?

[njparton]

I'm running my current setup with the 704-2BTA bios and am about to purchase an opteron 170 and 2GB of G SKill PC4000 ram to replace my venice and 1GB Corsair ram.

 

Can/should I stick with this BIOS for my NF4 SLI-D or go with a different one?

 

Thanks

[Guest GripS]

Nope. That BIOS you currently have will work just fine.

 

It would be a good idea to do a clean windows install though.

[red930]

The current Bios you're using should be fine (704-2BTA). I've used that bios with my Opteron 165 and G.SKILL F1 PC4000 before and it worked the same as the Beta Bios that i'm now using.

[lowboy]

The bios your using should work fine with the dual core. For dual core support need 623 or later bios.

[njparton]

Thanks guys.

 

I read somewhere else that I may need to do a clean install. Going to try it without first and resort to that if necessary. Getting sick and tired of phoning Microsoft every 6 months to re-validate windows!

 

I've downloaded the dual core driver from the AMD website.

 

Will this bios recognise the opteron or will it show "unrecognised cpu" or something similar?

[madian225]

Hi

 

I just checked mine as it states " AMD Dual Core Opteron " so you should be fine

[njparton]

Excellent, thanks