AMD Opteron 2xx series, Cuts have started

[shootsfor3]

For people who are interested,
There has been talk about deep price cuts for the 2xx series Opterons in Mid February.
Looks like Monarch is the first one.
For Example Link
Might have to wait a couple of days for prices to settle in for the other vendors.
A hefty price cut if you ask me.

 

[Lyfer]

Socket 940 FTL.

 

[fireontheway]

Originally posted by: Lyfer
Socket 940 FTL.

QFT

 

[imhungry]

Are these any more stable than the Opty 165?

Or is it just that these can be used in dual, quad, octi, etc.

(cores)

 

[TrevorRC]

They can be used in dual processor systems.

That's about it.

 

[Ionizer86]

What would a home user do with a quad core rig?

 

[aboothman]

gloat to all his friends

 

[najames]

Hmmm, $500 AMD Tour rig sitting here. It has twin Opty 246s now, that'd be a heck of an upgrade.

Nah, I haven't even had time to get this thing set up to run VM yet, maybe later. So much to learn, so little time, waaahhhhh!

 

[Tal]

Originally posted by: najames
Hmmm, $500 AMD Tour rig sitting here. It has twin Opty 246s now, that'd be a heck of an upgrade.

Nah, I haven't even had time to get this thing set up to run VM yet, maybe later. So much to learn, so little time, waaahhhhh!

Listen.... you can learn just fine on this spare 1ghz machine I have laying around.... cough up the twin!!!!

 

[Parkre]

Why did it get cut by over half??

from 750ish to $347? Price error or is it because the M2s are coming out soon?

 

[DidlySquat]

Originally posted by: Lyfer
Socket 940 FTL.

Socket 939 is also a dead horse.

Hail the new AM2 socket 940 . Despite what some morons think, the DDR2 support in the integrated controller means that the performance will be at least 10% faster at the same clock speed......

 

[jmunjr]

Hail the new AM2 socket 940 . Despite what some morons think, the DDR2 support in the integrated controller means that the performance will be at least 10% faster at the same clock speed......

oh boy...

 

[Zap]

Didn't dude already get warned by the mods?

 

[motoxpress]

That is a major cut in price. Hope it's not a mistake.

-mx

 

[chinkgai]

Originally posted by: DidlySquat

Originally posted by: Lyfer
Socket 940 FTL.

Socket 939 is also a dead horse.

Hail the new AM2 socket 940 . Despite what some morons think, the DDR2 support in the integrated controller means that the performance will be at least 10% faster at the same clock speed......

looks like this idi0t posted this after he was warned by a mod in another thread. i foresee he gets a vacation soon.

 

[dman]

Windows XP supports 1-2 CPU's, is that cores or physical? I'm assuming cores and that it won't recognize 4 processors in the box and you'd have to have windows 2000/3 Server or a non-MS alternative.

As to why XP... well... it would still be good for Media Encoding while multitasking with other things and for $1000 for the core setup it's not unreasonable. Not like I'm going to do it, just curious.

 

[rstrohkirch]

physical sockets

 

[ayabe]

Originally posted by: DidlySquat

Originally posted by: Lyfer
Socket 940 FTL.

Socket 939 is also a dead horse.

Hail the new AM2 socket 940 . Despite what some morons think, the DDR2 support in the integrated controller means that the performance will be at least 10% faster at the same clock speed......

Yeah more thread crapping.

 

[manno]

Originally posted by: motoxpress
That is a major cut in price. Hope it's not a mistake.

-mx

it's not