Abit AB9 Quad GT and Xeon???!

[TSCrv]

Well, to make a long story short, I need to know if an Abit AB9 Quad GT with latest bios will work with a Xeon 3070 or X3220 Kentsfield. I personally have tested it with a 3040 and it works, so no reason why it wouldn't work with a 3070, but id love to see if i could stick a X3220 in the sucker.

I have seen a 3060 installed and some nice superPi times, but I have no clue what bios the guy was using.

And before anybody asks, yes, this is for a server setup. 03 server as a DC, exchange, fileserver, and some more specialized things. Don't ask why I chose this mainboard.

Any confirmations? In theory a 3070 would work, but I wouldn't risk my money on it.

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: TSCrv
Well, to make a long story short, I need to know if an Abit AB9 Quad GT with latest bios will work with a Xeon 3070 or X3220 Kentsfield. I personally have tested it with a 3040 and it works, so no reason why it wouldn't work with a 3070, but id love to see if i could stick a X3220 in the sucker.

I have seen a 3060 installed and some nice superPi times, but I have no clue what bios the guy was using.

don't have a CPU to prove it but imo there is no reason why it shouldn't work.

 

[TSCrv]

Problem solved, ill just get a 3060, (cash) but I am still curious on if this thing can support a Kentsfield.

 

[Heidfirst]

it definitely supports quad-core, in fact it's 1 of the best 965s for oc one.

 

[TSCrv]

Originally posted by: Heidfirst
it definitely supports quad-core, in fact it's 1 of the best 965s for oc one.

But does it have what it needs to even run a (Quad) Xeon class processor? or am I still in the past with the mindset that xeon and P4 (now C2D) are 2 different animals.

 

[TSCrv]

Meh... maybe I should stick this board in my main system and have my EVGA 680i mainboard as the server...

Come to think about it I did manage to BSOD the abit by just sticking a drive in the drive cage and hitting the button... stuff like that shouldnt happen.

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: TSCrv
Come to think about it I did manage to BSOD the abit by just sticking a drive in the drive cage and hitting the button... stuff like that shouldnt happen.

you need to describe exactly what you did a bit better than that

tbh imo 965 is less buggy than nF6xxi

 

[TSCrv]

well, heres the setup: (bear in mind im not seeking help for the BSOD, im just blaming it on poor engineering)

abit ab9 quad gt, 2x1gb kingston 533 mem (temporary,) seasonic 600w, no cd (loaded with an extra 3550a,) evga 7600gs (or something like that, it will never see a 3d app ever,) and 4U rackmount case. fully conditioned power. oh an a shatty p4 3.0 2m cache... single core... >< (till xeon comes in)

the drives, so far running a mirror of an 80 and 200, extra drives that i decommissioned because of small size for my first implementation of my server setup untill seagate 1tb ES drives come out... these drives were mounted in an athena 4 bay raid cage modded with an intel stock btx 92mm highspeed fan.

the rundown of what happened: after everything is installed, including the raid monitor, i popped a 750 with some of my isos out of my production server, still on, and popped it in the testbed, seeing if it would detect it like it should.

Well, things didnt go as planned. my production server froze up hard... its been giving me issues anyways, hence the rebuild. And the new build was fine for about 30 seconds, i go to refresh either computer management or the raid monitor/config utility and got an 0x00008086 stop and memory dump...

This wasnt the first BSOD ive gotten on this server tho, well excuse of a server, ive had a few driver issues because its 03 server, mainly uGuru. Also 1 at boot time from a mup.sys overflow (traced back to drivers)... after that i reloaded, and no issues since then, of course i didnt reload uGuru. Sadly i am not impressed with the software/driver/company side of this board, but meh, it works for now.

So thats my story, not exactly residential use eh? whats strange is whenever the BSODs happen i actually get memory dumps. as a primary job i am a repair tech, and i RARELY get systems to give me a memory dump (but they arnt running 03 server either)

oh, if i sound arrogant its because im either A tired of poor engineering, or B expecting too much from a mainboard (some1 confirm on B please, its ONLY going to be exchange, dns, a few websites a few sql servers, fileserver of 4tb)

 

[Heidfirst]

Originally posted by: TSCrv
(bear in mind im not seeking help for the BSOD, im just blaming it on poor engineering)

& yet the QuadGT has been widely praised for it's engineering (at least as a consumer mobo - it probably doesn't compare to a Supermicro or Tyan server mobo but then it's not meant to & they probably don't overclock like it does :evil

oh, if i sound arrogant its because im either A tired of poor engineering, or B expecting too much from a mainboard (some1 confirm on B please, its ONLY going to be exchange, dns, a few websites a few sql servers, fileserver of 4tb)

if you are sure that the majority of problems are related to the uGuru driver then don't load it, all that you'll lose is the Windows GUI & you can still set/use it from the BIOS if you want.
On the other hand it's an Intel chipset with Intel drivers, do you know that what ocurred wouldn't have happened on another P965 mobo?