New and older Opterons

[Dan Irwin]

Hi,

I'm thinking about buying a high end opteron board, but before i shell
out the money i want to make sure that it'll be good for a while. Last
week i was reading an article in PcMag which talked about the timeline
for CPUs over the next two years(i'm starting to realize they put out
this article every year around now). Anyway, i was reading about the
new opterons slated to come out in the 4th Quarter of this year
codenamed Venus Troy and Athens for the 100, 200, and 800 series
respectively. Will motherboards out now be able to use these cpus? If
so will they also be able to us the next update codenamed Denmark
Italy and Egypt? I can't imagine the latter would be true, or anybody
would know at this time, but i'm curious about the first thing.

thx for the help,

dan

 

[Lazarus]

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[bah]

Hi,

I'm thinking about buying a high end opteron board, but before i shell
out the money i want to make sure that it'll be good for a while. Last
week i was reading an article in PcMag which talked about the timeline
for CPUs over the next two years(i'm starting to realize they put out
this article every year around now). Anyway, i was reading about the
new opterons slated to come out in the 4th Quarter of this year
codenamed Venus Troy and Athens for the 100, 200, and 800 series
respectively. Will motherboards out now be able to use these cpus? If
so will they also be able to us the next update codenamed Denmark
Italy and Egypt? I can't imagine the latter would be true, or anybody
would know at this time, but i'm curious about the first thing.

thx for the help,

dan

It's my impression that no one knows much about opterons. I did a
google and yahoo search the other day and there's piss little out
there. Someone said Intel doesn't like people knowing about them

Then again, there's that whole two processors will NEVER be cheap for
anyone thing they have going. Intel must make a LOT of money off of
businesses to completely abandon selling twice as many processors to
all of us. But then, the marketing and decision making guys at INTEL
have had their cocaine packed heads up their asses forever now.

One wonders what the deal is with those single socket 1.4Ghz opterons
though.

 

[Dan Irwin]

Dan

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