Posted on 09/26/2005 4:42:23 PM PDT by xcamel
Advanced Micro Devices Inc. on Monday unveiled three models in the dual-core Opteron chip family, as the company tries to stay ahead of rival Intel Corp.
The Sunnyvale, Calif., company's Model 880 for up to eight-way, 16-core servers and Model 280 for dual-processor workstations and servers are available immediately. The Model 180 for one-processor, two-core servers and workstations is scheduled for release within 30 days. The new models are for the x86 platform.
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I wonder how hot these things run?
"The Opteron Model 880 and Model 280 are priced at $2,649 and $1,299, respectively, in 1,000-unit quantities. The Model 180 is expected to cost $799 in the same quantities."
OUCH!
Hooray for good ol american cut-throat capitalism!
It happens every time I build a new system... I will build a system, think it's going to be top notch for awhile soon as it gets done and get the bugs worked out, something new comes out. Never fails. The Athlon 64 X2's have been out for awhile now.
Pretty pricey, but worth it to get your frame rates up.
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Bet you could cook eggs on one.......
I have had bad luck with AMD.....
I can imagine a 16 core server would be able to heat up a small building pretty easily!
lol
I have a few Opterons, single-core, in production. They SCREAM through tasks.
Which AMD chips did you have trouble with?
The 880 only draws 95 watts. That, along with SOI and the 0.09 nm process reduce powerusage/heat by a lot.
The only bad luck I've had in the past, say 4-5 years was due to a crappy VIA chipset board.
The next time around I switched to a new nVidia chipset board and it's been great.
Not bad- I'm reading it uses their nice cool n quiet technology.
Hopefully existing heat sinks can work with this one.
For such an expensive processor I would suggest you get the PIB (Processor in a Box) version that comes with an amd approved fan. Unless you are overclocking or need it to be very quiet.
The 3 year warranty that comes with the PIB is also kind of nice.
Do you think the 180 will have enough power to handle the next bloated generation of Microsoft software, or should we all go ahead and spring for the 880 now?
My best memory is that they were 1.8 and 2 gig chips about 5-6 years ago. Never got the 1.8 to run right, and fried the 2 gig chip when the heat sink came loose.
I was running 3 case fans, one for the bios, one for the power supply and one on the proccessor. Darn thing sounded like a blender.
I threw the board and chip away. It was the last AMD system I built. Expensive mistake.
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