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Rubbish...
What rubbish, Tyan has a 8 CPU K8 Dual core board, lets you put 16!!!! cores on it.That's twice the Intel thinggy and about 2 years old.
You are posting pure Intel FUD.
AMD has many solutions, sure it's called Opteron boards, but you can happily came on them, just like any other Desktop board.
BTW, I run quad-core AMD K8 way before Intel even knew they have a dual core.
Simply with the K8N Master from MSI and a couple of Opteron 270's.
brute force inefficiency
i thought the AMD 4x4 was a stupid enough idea, but this Intel one is just as bad.the amount of circuitry on that board just to have 2 sockets and 4 PCIe sockets is astounding.
the power inefficiency is amazingly BAD and i can't believe the amount of effort and brute force this board uses just to have the features and performance.
the power WASTED to get the performance level is ridiculous.
Correction
Tyan's 8 CPU board ran Opterons which are a SERVER chip, not a DESKTOP chip. Server chips have disadvantages for workstation use, registered memory with slow timings etc...Add a new comment: