Heads up re VM's & Intel 64bit Processors

[Odd]

Liam Proven wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 20, 2010 at 6:42 AM, Dedhi Sujatmiko
> <sujatmiko.dedhi at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Saturday 20,March,2010 12:01 PM, NoOp wrote:
>>> 64bit guest if the system has VT-x. So I look in BIOS&  can't find an
>>> option for VT-x (virtualization).
>>>
>>>
>>> Next stop; ark.intel.com&  what do I find... the T4300 is indeed a 64bit
>>> processor, *but* it doesn't support VT-x or Hyperthreading!
>>>
>> Those are the two reasons why I keep my virtualization laptop for work
>> travel always an Athlon 64X2 based one.
>> Because buying the Intel one having the risk of either the processor
>> does not support VT-x or there is no option to enable it in the BIOS.
>>
>> However I consider myself quite lucky when I was given a Fujitsu S6520.
>> Initially it cannot enable the BIOS, but after BIOS upgrade, then I can
>> enable the VT-x.
> 
> Sadly no guarantee. My desktop is an AMD - Athlon X2 64 4400+, one of
> the last, best, fastest Socket 939 chips there were. The CPU supports
> AMD-V but there is no option to enable it in the BIOS so VirtualBox
> has to do without.

That sucks. What motherboard is this?

> The BIOS is the latest one & as it's a 5YO motherboard, I expect no
> further upgrades. I had to upgrade it when I got it a few months back
> just to get the M/B to recognise 4GB of RAM - its ~2006/2007 BIOS only
> saw 3¼GB, i.e., the 32-bit ceiling.

Ah, pretty old. I guess back then, they didn't consider this at all.
I expect that newer motherboards mostly support it. Anyway,
it's best to check it out before buying. Or upgrade. :)

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Odd