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AMD Enables OEMs to Offer Quad-Core Upgradeable Platforms to Reduce Total Cost of Ownership and to Improve Performance-per-Watt in Datacenters.

Sunnyvale, Calif -- August 15, 2006 -- AMD (NYSE:AMD) today introduced its Next-Generation AMD Opteron

03/09/2006 07:30 PM: Dual Socket F Motherboard Sighting by Hooz
The Inquirer has a picture of an Asus(?) dual Socket F motherboard, the KFN4-DRE.This one is a dual Socket F board called the KFN4-DRE, and the spec sheet has some goodies on it. It confirms the serve...

03/16/2005 02:43 PM: Intel Invents new Socket for Xeon by duke
The Inquirer is reporting that Intel will be switching its Xeon DP line of processors over to a new socket, LGA771. Yup, another socket, and if it is not painfully clear from the slide, this is the ne...

BlueCoder Registered User Posts: 118 Joined: 2000-04-22

#39158 Posted on: 08/16/2006 04:26 PM And look at the Tyan site, they not only have released the broadcom board but announced the Thunder n3600B with 2 x16 slots and the Thunder n6650W with 4 x16 slots and SAS!!! My eyes are misting up.

opus13 misanthrope. Posts: 1628 Joined: 2002-04-05

#39161 Posted on: 08/16/2006 09:41 PM http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thundern6650w.html dear god is that an asskicking board.

BlueCoder Registered User Posts: 118 Joined: 2000-04-22

#39162 Posted on: 08/17/2006 03:09 AM Can anyone find a price listing for the 6650? Being so new right now I'm guessing around $1500.

locovaca That's what she said Posts: 176 Joined: 2001-07-17

#39163 Posted on: 08/17/2006 11:55 AM I went to the link and I think the board ate my cat. Seriously. It should be noticed that two of those x16 slots only have x8 lines. Not that it makes a huge difference in performance, but just should be noted. Getting 8 DVI ports in there with 8 30" Dell's... Imagine the screen savers bouncing from screen to screen . Just gotta win the Powerball.

georg Registered User Posts: 33 Joined: 2002-12-06

#39164 Posted on: 08/17/2006 02:11 PM This is hot ! Can't wait for those quad core Opterons. 8x8 anyone ?

Jizzler Multi-Core Zealot Posts: 2066 Joined: 2000-10-28

#39165 Posted on: 08/18/2006 04:39 AM Originally posted by BlueCoder: Can anyone find a price listing for the 6650? Being so new right now I'm guessing around $1500. Froogle has some listings at $400-$500 (no SAS, SAS). No one has it in stock yet, but some are taking pre-orders. $1500 can get you one of Tyan's quad socket boards

BlueCoder Registered User Posts: 118 Joined: 2000-04-22

#39167 Posted on: 08/18/2006 03:11 PM Only that much? Just might be in my price range then. But I want all the options. I was reading up on SAS. Other than connecting two computers/cards up to a drive and full duplex there doesn't seems to be than much advantage to it but for the controller it matters in that you can split the cables with SAS switches and so I think if the sas drive supports it... daisy chaining. I'll never be able to afford the SAS drives but it would be nice to know I could... if I won the lotto. SAS downgrads all connects to SATA as per spec very nicely. RAID cards will likely start using SAS in a couple years just because of the better multiple devices per cable even if they are for SATA drives.

Jizzler Multi-Core Zealot Posts: 2066 Joined: 2000-10-28

#39169 Posted on: 08/18/2006 05:56 PM I believe I've read somewhere than motherboards with AM2 and Socket F were easier to design, and thus cheaper? I could be thinking of something else though...

BlueCoder Registered User Posts: 118 Joined: 2000-04-22

#39171 Posted on: 08/19/2006 03:54 AM Tyan doesn't stop. They have added the Thunder n4250QE a quad board. And with the M4985 expansion that with bring it up to 8 processors. Do the math... 8x4, that's right, with the quad core were talking a 32 way... www.32cpu.com

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