IWILL ZMAXdp Dual Opteron Small Form Factor Barebones System

**Jason** · Last edited by Jason on Sun, 07 Jan 2007 01:28:36; edited 3 times in total

The IWILL ZMAXdp System may not be the latest or greatest, but it is capable of providing some serious computing power in an attractive small form factor configuration. With the potential for two dual-core Opterons, 2GB dual channel DDR, and SATA RAID, it is a work horse disguised as a pony. - The Review

**Jason** · Posted: Sat, 30 Dec 2006 11:56:22 Post Subject:

Senor Cheeze popped this up onto Digg, and any bumps there would be appreciated! Digg Link

Thanks.

**Jason** · Posted: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 23:53:27 Post Subject:

These things are back on sale... $192ish

I have made mine my main system! Grin

**Jason** · Posted: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 23:41:51 Post Subject:

Check this out... This reseller has these systems for $140 each. Nice enough, but buy two and it is $115 each!!!

Store Link

Good Reseller Rating

I made the review sample my daily rig! Love it. May buy one more for parts... I fear the day if/when this proprietary PSU may die pushing all four cores to Fold@Home.

acruxksa · Posted: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 00:45:18 Post Subject:

BB,
Are these are the 940 pin opterons? Standard DDR ram, not registered or ecc?............................Tempting..............................Very Tempting.

**Jason** · Posted: Tue, 27 Feb 2007 08:31:32 Post Subject:

The board uses 940 Opterons, and you can run just one chip at a time... But you do need ECC DDR (333 or 400). I am unsure if registered is required off the top of my head, but I happen to be using DDR 400 ECC Registered here.

diggerbgt · Rated PG Joined: 20 Mar 2007 Posts: 1

I did getone of these while available, but even with only 2- Opteron 246 HE processors I find it quite load. Is there any suggestion for a solution.
Thanks

**Jason** · Posted: Tue, 20 Mar 2007 17:22:13 Post Subject:

Hi, and welcome - is it loud all the time, or just while under a heavy processing load?

I have 2x Opteron 270 CPUs, and although it isn't silent while idling or just surfing the Net, etc... It really only gets loud when I have the CPUs maxed out on something like Folding@Home.

First step would be to check the BIOS for the temperature where the fans react. I think mine came set in the low 40C range, now I have it at 55C. So, it just doesn't ramp up the fans as early.