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AMD Istanbul Field Upgrade

By // May 30, 2009, 8:28 AM PST

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  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    AMD was nice enough to send me two Opteron 2435 "Istanbul" 6-core processors to upgrade my Supermicro dual-processor system, which was previously using Opteron quad cores.

    Read more about the AMD Istanbul at ZDNet Tech Broiler.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    The back of the Istanbul is standard Socket F. No major changes from the previous four generations of Opteron chips.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    Another look at the Opteron 2435.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    My SuperMicro server.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    Inside my dual-processor SuperMicro.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    Exposing CPU socket 1, with the original Quad-core chip.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    Original Quad Core chip next two the twin Istanbuls. Boy, Its gonna be nice having 12 cores.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    CPU #1 firmly in place.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    Here's were stuff went wrong, which I have to take complete responsibility for. Somehow I managed to bend the socket pins on CPU socket #2. While Socket F processors are fairly easy to install and replace, you do need to be careful how you pull them out and drop them back in.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    Even though I damaged the second CPU slot, I still was able to boot with the first CPU and boot into Windows Server 2008 R2.

  • AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

    Six processor cores detected by Windows 2008 R2's Device Manager. Yeah, I'd love to have 12, but that will have to wait another week until I get a new mainboard from SuperMicro.

AMD Opteron "Istanbul" 2435 Field Upgrade

AMD was nice enough to send me two Opteron 2435 "Istanbul" 6-core processors to upgrade my Supermicro dual-processor system, which was previously using Opteron quad cores.

Read more about the AMD Istanbul at ZDNet Tech Broiler.

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