AMD’s Twelve-Core Microprocessors Available for Sale.

[Gutterz]

Oakville Mehlville Computers, a maker of custom servers and workstations from Missouri, has started to sell twelve-core AMD Opteron 6174 microprocessors for servers at an Ebay auction. The chips are not officially launched yet, even though the processors do not look like engineering samples and may belong to the first mass-production batch of twelve-core chips.
The manufacturer of custom high-end machines sells a set of four AMD Opteron 6174 microprocessors with 2.20GHz clock-speed, 12MB of unified level-three cache and 6MB level-two cache (512KB of cache per core). The central processing units code-named Magny-Cours have quad-channel PC3-10600 (DDR3 1333MHz) memory controller and are designed for socket G34 platform.


http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/cpu/display/20100215231002_AMD_s_Twelve_Core_Microprocessors_A vailable_for_Sale.html


http://www.xbitlabs.com/images/news/2010-02/amd_opteron_magny-cours_ebay.jpg

[Hondacity]

this is sad...amd releasing it....where are the motherboards? sheesh

[Splave]

thats a wicked looking CPU lol I love it.

[Chuchnit]

Are these LGA design like intel?

[Witchdoctor]

I am with honda ............ where's the Mobo ..........?

[Neuromancer]

this is sad...amd releasing it....where are the motherboards? sheesh


Cant find any yet.. Maybe they are waiting for official release of the magny cour?

[ReverendMaynard]

Are these LGA design like intel?

negative from what I've seen so far. Hard to tell if they're pins or pads, but they did do 1207. 1974 pins might be a beeyotch lol.

http://images.dailytech.com/nimage/8709_large_amd_g34.png

[Neuromancer]

Are these LGA design like intel?

Yes 1974 contact LGA according to most sites I have seen

Rev that pic you linked is approximately 2 years old. And does not show pins exactly just contact points.


EDIT: If you beleive S|A

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/03/08/magny-cours-and-quad-fermi-boxes-pictured/

Those look like LGA socket covers to me :)

[ReverendMaynard]

Yes 1974 contact LGA according to most sites I have seen

Rev that pic you linked is approximately 2 years old. And does not show pins exactly just contact points.


EDIT: If you beleive S|A

http://www.semiaccurate.com/2010/03/08/magny-cours-and-quad-fermi-boxes-pictured/

Those look like LGA socket covers to me :)

two years old but still correct. I hope AMD doesn't go LGA, it sucks ass.

[Neuromancer]

two years old but still correct. I hope AMD doesn't go LGA, it sucks ass.

Yes still correct but not correct that it shows pins, just contacts well

Daily tech says the diagram shows 1974 contacts. Which would be wrong only 1944 on the G34 socket

I do agree LGA sucks though.


EDIT: Found the CPU info for opteron 6174 (http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K10/AMD-Opteron%206174%20-%20OS6174WKTCEGO%20(OS6174WKTCEGOWOF).html)

1944-Land Lidded LGA

[Neuromancer]

Hyper-threading is good. But does not match coreage. (well a i7 4p socket might whoop its ass if overclocked.. by manufacturer, aint happenin on that level though... and trichannel ram? made such a diff on i7.

quad channel? z0mgZ!!! AMD has rocked the latency world forever. (Still have not seen an i7 beat my 35ns latency of a 3200 winnie and 2-2-2-5 ram at 470MHz. Intel triple channel must be close... Quad is going to be in the 20ns range...