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AMD Intros New Opteron Processors

Originally posted by: xenolith
Confirmed

Sorry, link isn't direct... you have to click on Dual-Core Opteron and then socket: 939

Dual core s939 opterons. Oh, the O/C potential... :Q
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Is a common s939 mobo (e.g. DFI nF4) going to work with Opterons? Or is the nF Pro required.
 
people a 2.4ghz opteron 1xx series amounts to a 4800+ X2....I wonder if this is a prelude to X2 price drops since the 4800+ X2 is listed as 889.00 and yet the 180 will be released at 790 it states....
 
WOW. If these come out soon and will work in current 939 mb I will be getting the 170 which would be the 4000 X2 that everyone wanted!
 
Originally posted by: ND40oz
Anyone have any idea of pricing on the 165? And can we use unregistered, non-ecc ram with these?
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I think the s939 ones don't go with registered memory.
 
One of the design strengths of the Opteron is the ability for each processor to access their own individual bank of memory. 165 and up are dual-core. The Tyan Tomcat K8E works with it.
 
Originally posted by: Duvie
people a 2.4ghz opteron 1xx series amounts to a 4800+ X2....I wonder if this is a prelude to X2 price drops since the 4800+ X2 is listed as 889.00 and yet the 180 will be released at 790 it states....
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The most significant price change will be the 165 and (to a lesser degree) the 170 going up in price. By the time they come back into stock, they won't be anywhere near the same value they were before.

The only way prices come down is when retailers feel the pressure to offload the inventory of 4600+, 4800+, 175, and 180 nobody is buying (which is probably not even remotely true at this point in time).

As long as somebody is willing and able to pay a certain price, it won't come down.
 
Performance per watt may sound funny now, but it's going to be a battleground in the future, and AMD will have a tough time keeping up if rumours of Intel's ultra-low power CPU's are true.

Intel's next gen desktop chips (ie the ones based on Pentium M technology) are supposedly dissipating around 30W at load, although this is preliminary and of course we don't know how well those chips would perform (ie they may need to crank up the voltage and thus power dissipation in order to be competitive).

Also, this signifies that AMD already holds the unquestioned performance lead in the server market, and they're now tackling it in a different way (which they already lead, since the Xeon is Prescott based).
 
But, really, who cares about 'performance-per-watt'? I sure as hell don't. The only reason to care is if you've got a lappy or if you're dirt poor and can't pay your electricity bills. But if the last's true, what they hell are you buying >$450 chips for?

I honestly couldn't care less if my AMD or Intel would use 10~40 W more than the one of the competition, I want performance. As soon as I get a laptop, I'd go with the lowest Watter. Battery life is (almost) everything.
 
Originally posted by: Vegitto
But, really, who cares about 'performance-per-watt'? I sure as hell don't. The only reason to care is if you've got a lappy or if you're dirt poor and can't pay your electricity bills. But if the last's true, what they hell are you buying >$450 chips for?

I honestly couldn't care less if my AMD or Intel would use 10~40 W more than the one of the competition, I want performance. As soon as I get a laptop, I'd go with the lowest Watter. Battery life is (almost) everything.
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Opterons are commercial CPUs. Businesses will have hundreds if not thousands of CPUs all running inside air conditioned workspaces and server rooms. Lower wattage CPUs give the business two savings. Less electricity to run the thousands of CPUs, and less electricity to run the A/C that is trying to cool the air warmed by thousands of CPUs.

Add that up across 250 business days a year, and it comes out to real, big money.
 
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