AMD and ACER sitting in a tree...

[ToolPackinMama]

K.I.S.S.I.N.G!

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...ight-to-win-back-server-share-from-intel.html

 

[Paul]

K.I.S.S.I.N.G!

http://www.businessweek.com/news/20...ight-to-win-back-server-share-from-intel.html

The processor they're using, has a socket with 1974 contacts.
With a plan to put up to four of those sockets on a motherboard,
the motherboard must be the size of a football field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_G34

http://www.dailytech.com/Hello+AMD+Socket+G34/article12400.htm

Paul

 

[Mike Easter]

The processor they're using, has a socket with 1974 contacts.
With a plan to put up to four of those sockets on a motherboard,
the motherboard must be the size of a football field.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socket_G34

Magny-Cours on eBay

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/22/opteron_6100s_on_ebay/ Oakville
Mehlville Services, a service provider based in St Louis, Missouri, has
put four of the Socket G34 processors up for sale for $7,700 - or just
under £5,000. The Opteron 6174 chips that Oakville Mehlville has put up
for sale run at 2.2 GHz.

AMD sited blogger with graphics comparing 12 core 2.2 GHz AMD 6174 with
6 core 3.33 GHz Intel Xeon X5680 http://blogs.amd.com/work/tag/12-cores/

More performance less cost less watts.

 

[Paul]

Magny-Cours on eBay

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/02/22/opteron_6100s_on_ebay/ Oakville
Mehlville Services, a service provider based in St Louis, Missouri, has
put four of the Socket G34 processors up for sale for $7,700 - or just
under £5,000. The Opteron 6174 chips that Oakville Mehlville has put up
for sale run at 2.2 GHz.

AMD sited blogger with graphics comparing 12 core 2.2 GHz AMD 6174 with
6 core 3.33 GHz Intel Xeon X5680 http://blogs.amd.com/work/tag/12-cores/

More performance less cost less watts.

Here is a picture of a quad socket G34 motherboard.
It's got 32 DIMM sockets on it. I can see why the CPU socket
is rectangular - it makes positioning the DIMMs easier

ftp://ftp.tyan.com/img_mobo/S8812_2D_S.jpg

Paul