Purchasing Lanparty NF4 Ultra-D and x2 - WILL IT WORK?

[casper_wjt]

I'm going to purchase an X2 4400+ chip along with a NF4 UltraD lanparty board.

I'm new to the AMD arena, and would like to know:

 

Will the board BOOT with the stock BIOS, so I can at least flash it to a dual core supporting BIOS. I'm reading in forums that a BIOS isn't released cause the chips aren't. That's garbage- I can order them from my supplier and they ARE in stock. So, please enlighten me whether If i buy a new board and X2 chip - WILL IT BOOT?

 

Thanks

[IceWing]

According to what I've heard, DFI boards should work right out of the box with Advanced Micro Devices' X2 processors. However, I won't say anything about performance with a standard BIOS - but it ought to boot (although I haven't been able to test it since I use the 0.09nm Venice CPU 3500+ which I'm quite satisfied with.)

 

Anyway, I did a bit of research and found this thread:

 

http://forums.anandtech.com/messageview.as...028&STARTPAGE=1

 

A lot of people seem to agree that the 5-10 BIOS is the best fit for an X2 processor, and I wonder if it's not possible to grab it somewhere on this site? :-)

 

Last but not least, do consider whether buying a X2 processor is the best fit for you? It will at least take half a year before multi-threaded games and programs appear, and the X2 processors are still aggressively priced!

 

Best regards,

IceWing.

[CJ4]

The 623 bios has been updated for the X2 processors. However, you can still use earlier bioses as well.

 

CJ

[Hymn]

According to what I've heard, DFI boards should work right out of the box with Advanced Micro Devices' X2 processors.

 

icewing your such a showoff when it comes to knowing what computer abbreviations mean

 

... and yes those X2 processors will work, someone had a missunderstanding.

 

Tom