AMD 12-core opteron available on ebay!

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aigomorla said:
ive seen tests and reviews on it already.

You wont be happy... ^_^

A lot of AMD farmers are moving to Gainestown / Gulftowns.

Its gonna be a bad year for AMD, but not ATI.
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can you link to one of the reviews, I wonder how it will do in threaded benchmarks.

what's a AMD farmer? I have an amd, but I don't grow any grains with it :]
 
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Surprise. They know that Nehalem kicks their bottoms, like you and everyone else does. They wait for BD and Glofos 32nm schedule, unfortunately for them, BD is nowhere to be seen at the shelves for some time to come. Stick with what you got and move on....
 
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A question for JF-AMD. A quick search at AMD's Open64 Compiler source code at developer.amd.com shows lots of interesting but surely premature or incomplete info on Orochi, thats the codename for the server family of BD cores i presume. Does this mean that the compiler developers have running early silicon? or they just get the information from the architects/engineers?
 
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Is that pic stretched or are these packages rectangular? Reminds me of the Pentium Pro aka Socket-8.

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Rubycon said:
Wow neat stuff.
That's high end so there should be four socket boards.
The new Cinebench supports 48 cores. Coincidence? ;)
Hopefully the boards will support "high end" ram amounts of 512+ GB too.
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Are you going to get a 4S Istanbul? It would be interesting to compare with the 2S Nehalem you already own.
 
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Rubycon said:
Wow neat stuff.
That's high end so there should be four socket boards.
The new Cinebench supports 48 cores. Coincidence? ;)
Hopefully the boards will support "high end" ram amounts of 512+ GB too.
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now it just needs 4 PCI-e 16x slots and a huge water cooler so we could have a 48 core 4.0Ghz monstrosity.
 
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soccerballtux said:
now it just needs 4 PCI-e 16x slots and a huge water cooler so we could have a 48 core 4.0Ghz monstrosity.
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7 or 8 would be more like it. The other slots could be 133MHz PCI-X.
Water not allowed here. :mad:
I'm sure if a $20k box found its way in the OCEAN by "accident" that may augment things. Or not. :hmm:
 
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nyker96 said:
can you link to one of the reviews, I wonder how it will do in threaded benchmarks.

what's a AMD farmer? I have an amd, but I don't grow any grains with it :]
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WCG people.. or F@H people.

They call there collection "Farms".

The one i saw however was only a dual socket, and not a quad socket.

And no... it was in a private section... The guy was nice to show us it and its results in ppd and a cinebench.
 
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Just a second. Are there still folders running Stanfords FAH on cpus? Thats ridiculous considering the hideous performance/watt compared to 80$ gpus from Nvidia.

The top farmers moved to GPU farms long long ago. Check out Atlas on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjOW5iW7dJQ

Hell, even Milkyway@Home has a GPU client crunching units 15x of a fast quadcore cpu.

Seems the only big folding project staying behind is WGC. Losing popularity all the more...
 
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aigomorla said:
WCG people.. or F@H people.

They call there collection "Farms".

The one i saw however was only a dual socket, and not a quad socket.

And no... it was in a private section... The guy was nice to show us it and its results in ppd and a cinebench.
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roger roger, now I get what these farms are growing, certainly not corns :]

Don't anyone here think these magna cores are massive? especially been made on 45nm process. the yield must reall suffer too!
 
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grimpr said:
Just a second. Are there still folders running Stanfords FAH on cpus? Thats ridiculous considering the hideous performance/watt compared to 80$ gpus from Nvidia.

The top farmers moved to GPU farms long long ago. Check out Atlas on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjOW5iW7dJQ

Hell, even Milkyway@Home has a GPU client crunching units 15x of a fast quadcore cpu.

Seems the only big folding project staying behind is WGC. Losing popularity all the more...
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Yes, I have both. I don't know about performance/watt, my electric bill is $300/month. The GPU client has 4 times the ppd, but it uses a LOT more power, and produces a lot more heat.
 
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anyone notice how they incorrectly call it Quad G34 (LGA1944) sockets

Pretty sure LGA is exclusive to intel :p
 
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Hell, even Milkyway@Home has a GPU client crunching units 15x of a fast quadcore cpu.

Seems the only big folding project staying behind is WGC. Losing popularity all the more...
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my 4870 has been crushing milkyway whenever it gets cold (coldest room in the house, the 4870 is a decent spaceheater)
 
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nyker96 said:
did a little seach, these chips are only doing 1,7ghz not even 2! I guess if they can be cooled well maybe can go much higher.
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When they launch it should be on a new stepping so 2ghz wouldn't be unreasonable no?

edit: nvm no new stepping but should be hitting 2ghz +
 
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Does anyone really care about folding performance? I have folding installed on every computer I own, including laptops, and I don't think I've ever thought about F@H when buying new hardware.


Even as a firm supporter of AMD, I'm not the least bit excited about mangy whores. It sounds like a repeat of the $100 original Phenom X4 and the $100 Athlon II X4. Instead following Intel's way of making super fast cores, AMD is throwing together a bunch of slow cores. I like both of my AMD quads, but it's hard to get excited over something that expands on multitasking but doesn't make any of those tasks faster than they already are.

If this thing will only run at 2GHz per core, then it's sure to suck. Some of the most intense stuff I deal with is single threaded. Hashing shared files in emule is single threaded. Installing and uninstalling software is single threaded. Booting into Windows is single threaded. Watching blip.tv is single threaded.
 
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