On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:13 PM, Myles Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 2:44 PM, yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >> >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:52 AM, ron minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:46 AM, yhlu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> > one HP's AMD based workstation (like tyan s2895) has that ... one ht >>> chain >>> > ==> one pci domain. >>> > you could enable that in BIOS setup. (HP's own BIOS) >>> >>> >>> Is there any benefit to it? >> >> >> more than 255 pci buses. think about if you have 32 ht chains... > > > Sorry to be dense, but how do you have more than 4 HT chains? Aren't there > are only 8 nodes allowed in a system (3 links per node)? > > If you took out the middle links in an 8-way design I guess you could have > 8 HT chains. > for amd family 10h (HT3 ?) will have 8 sublinks...so you could build system with more nodes and more ht chains YH
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