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.
Filed. But the brain is to tired to collate the data to well at this point. It needs some Chianti then bed rest.
It’s nuts how low prices are going.
Q8400 isn’t the cheapest quad around, I think the Q6600s are still available. It just seems like the current sweet spot in price/performance.
All the i series quads will likely start falling soon, as the Intel 6-cores hit the market, but for now, the jump to an i5 or i7 from a Q chip is still there.
Intel after paying $1.25 billion to AMD has to keep pace.AMD has always been stronger in floating point while Intel is king of software derived performance and marketing. Enterprise favors AMD for use in their server farms and modeling machines like for weather forecasting with hypertransport scaling to extremes. Gotta luv the competition.
Amd II X2 555 and an MSI 785GM-E51 for $85 after $15 rebate...runs DDR3 memory. Maybe store only.
See update.
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