Posted on 03/29/2010 12:06:58 PM PDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach
AMD announces availability of a new server platform featuring the world’s first 8- and 12-core x86 processor for the high-volume 2P and value 4P server market. The AMD Opteron™ 6000 Series platform addresses the unmistakable needs of server customers today - workload-specific performance, power efficiency, and overall value - while delivering more cores and more memory for less money.3 Leading OEMs including HP, Dell, Acer Group, Cray, and SGI are introducing new systems based on this highly scalable and reliable platform.
You’re obsolete, baby!
This stuff is moving fast.
What stuff?
From what I gathered from the folks at the Eggxpert forums, Crysis is a game built to nuke all hardware made. It’s a benchmark from hell.
I’m building a gaming rig now that’ll hopefully come close.
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AMD Shows Off Phenom II X6 “Thuban” Processor. ( to Get Dynamic Speed Boost Technology. )
fyi
The microprocessors...
You know more about this than I....
HP juices gamestations with Intel 'Westmeres'( Mo' better cores)
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The Register (UK) ^ | 24th March 2010 21:09 GMT | Timothy Prickett Morgan
Posted on Thu 25 Mar 2010 12:56:43 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Hewlett-Packard has freshened its desktop and mobile workstations with new Intel six-core "Westmere-EP" Xeon 5600 .
The move follows an early March update to the company's business notebook lineup that saw the addition of Intel's latest Core i3, i5, and i7 processors.
By Intel's reckoning, the Westmere-EPs offer about 45 per cent more speed running workstation-class applications than the four-core Xeon 5500s they replaced in the Intel lineup last week. The Xeon 5600s and their single-socket desktop and mobile siblings - the Core i5s and i7s - will surely be coveted by technical users who always need a rocket sled, executives think they need one because their egos demand it, and gamers who actually stress the iron but aren't doing work. (Perhaps they should call them gamestations and be honest about it?)
Is that their cheapest quad?
Pretty soon they will have a core for each bit... Ie. a 64 bit system will have 64 cores....
ECS MCP61M-M3 (V1.0A) AM3 NVIDIA GeForce 6100/nForce 430 Micro ATX AMD Motherboard
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Combo Price: $134.98
The video card makers are well beyond that now.
Thanks for the heads up!
Sounds like the processor industry is kicking R&D back into high gear again.
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