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Subject: Re: If you're considering an OPTERON upgrade... Wait a minute!

Author: Jay Urbanski

Date: 21:13:08 01/27/06

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On January 27, 2006 at 22:38:53, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On January 27, 2006 at 18:36:47, Frank Wies wrote:
>
>>They are also planning to ship quad cores later this year ... the ramp will be
>>in 2007.
>
>Expect end 2007 there will be a few quad cores, at massive prices, requiring
>massive cooling.
>
>Those dual cores run so so hot already idle despite massive cooling,
>it'll take a bit longer than predicted.

The Intel dual cores, maybe.. but the dual core Opteron's have the same 95W TDP
that the single cores have had for some time.  In fact, AMD makes special
versions (dual-core included) for some of it's top OEM blade customers that have
a 68W TDP.



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