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

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 17:01:14 01/28/06

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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.
>
>>Now, if our little fish goes MP, Vas and company will have to figure out how to
>>take advantage of all that CPU power on one chip!

If your playing games.. what do you expect this to do for you?

>>Regards,
>>Frank
>>
>>http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=460



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