Your quad-core computer doesn’t seem so great anymore now, does it, champ? AMD’s Opteron 6200 boasts 16 cores running at up to 2.6 GHz each. That is a lot of number crunching. Sadly, the monster isn’t made for you.
AMD’s going after server farms with the 16-headed Opteron–places where all of those cores can actually be taken advantage of, as opposed to a game of WoW. But in case you really, really want all those cores–and money isn’t a problem–the upper deck model can be snapped up for a cool $US1,020. That’s only like $US64 a core! And since the 6200 uses AMD’s power-saving Bulldozer architecture, you might even end up saving money, in some extremely complex rationalization you might want to employ.
Tenuous, fine. So how about this? The 6200 can overclock its cores on the fly by up to an extra 1 GHz, and supports up to 384 GB of RAM. I can’t wait to see how Skype runs on this thing. [AMD via PC World]
S0ULphIRE
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:19 PM“AMD’s power-saving Bulldozer architecture”
…rofl?
nicholas
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:27 PMTheir server chips are much better than their desktop chips.
S0ULphIRE
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 2:56 PMFair call, still based off the same architecture though. I’ll wait till the reviews come out before bashing I guess :p
Rob
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 3:04 PMHang on, Didn’t they say this about the 8 core version as well?
Stewart Walker
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 3:07 PMHmm, if only Intel didn’t debut their stupid 48 core machine the other day…
Matt L
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 3:24 PM“I can’t wait to see how Skype runs on this thing”… Probably slower then ever, skype trips itself over if it’s got too much power to consume.
Greg
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 3:33 PMGreat, so we’re all going to have to upgrade again …. sigh.
Peter
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 6:49 PMHmm, is it possibly a machine that could FINALLY run Battlefield 3? :O
Yan
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 7:02 PM“Opteron” mean for Server
Daniel
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 at 9:20 PMSkype!? I can’t wait to see how firefox handles on this badboy
Boomzzilla
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 at 12:40 PMAnd Skyrim will still only use 2 threads.