{"id":1548,"date":"2013-04-23T16:03:09","date_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/?p=1548"},"modified":"2013-04-23T16:03:09","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T14:03:09","slug":"amd-opteron-3320-ee-3350-he-with-gigabyte-ga-970a-ud3-socket-am3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/?p=1548","title":{"rendered":"AMD Opteron 3320 EE &#038; 3350 HE with Gigabyte GA 970a UD3 (Socket AM3+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/amd.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1549\" style=\"margin: 4px;\" alt=\"amd\" src=\"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/wp-content\/uploads\/amd.gif\" width=\"122\" height=\"54\" \/><\/a>If you are looking for a fast, but energy efficient AMD CPU you\u00b4ll probably have heard about the Opteron 3300 series. The Opterons &#8211; formerly used only in server systems &#8211; are nowadays fully compatible desktop CPU\u00b4s using the common CPU socket AM3+. This socket is also used by AMD\u00b4s FX &amp; A-Series CPU\u00b4s and a whole bunch of mainboards are available. The only problem is &#8211; most mainboard manufacturers only refer to the FX\u00a0 &amp; A-Series in their CPU compatibility lists and you\u00b4ll probably not find any information about the Opterons.<\/p>\n<p>So I picked two 3300 series Opterons for a short test with the very popular Gigabyte GA 970a UD3 Rev. 1.0 mainboard.<\/p>\n<p>The Opteron 3320 EE is the most energy efficient AMD quad core CPU currently on the market with a TDP of only 25W. The Opteron 3350 HE is the second most energy efficient AMD quad core CPU with a TDP of only 45W. While the 3320 operates at 1.9 GHZ, the 3350 operates at 2.8 GHZ.<\/p>\n<p>Both CPU\u00b4s work fine with the Gigabyte GA 970a UD3 mainboard but only if you have the latest BIOS installed. In my case this was BIOS version F7 (2012.10.22). One important note: the BIOS <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">can not<\/span> be updated with the Opteron 3320 or 3350. You\u00b4ll need an older CPU that is already supported by your current BIOS version. I used an AMD Sempron 145 (Socket AM3) for updating.<\/p>\n<p>Links:<\/p>\n<p>Gigabyte GA 970a UD3 Overview: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigabyte.de\/products\/product-page.aspx?pid=3907#ov\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gigabyte.de\/products\/product-page.aspx?pid=3907#ov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gigabyte GA 970a UD3 BIOS Download: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gigabyte.de\/products\/product-page.aspx?pid=3907#bios\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.gigabyte.de\/products\/product-page.aspx?pid=3907#bios<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you are looking for a fast, but energy efficient AMD CPU you\u00b4ll probably have heard about the Opteron 3300 series. The Opterons &#8211; formerly used only in server systems &#8211; are nowadays fully compatible desktop CPU\u00b4s using the common CPU socket AM3+. This socket is also used by AMD\u00b4s FX &amp; A-Series CPU\u00b4s and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/?p=1548\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">AMD Opteron 3320 EE &#038; 3350 HE with Gigabyte GA 970a UD3 (Socket AM3+)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[716,717,720,542,714,719,718,715],"class_list":["post-1548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it_wordpres","tag-716","tag-717","tag-720","tag-am3","tag-amd","tag-gigabyte","tag-he","tag-opteron"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1550,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1548\/revisions\/1550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hyperpac.de\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}