AMD Game News: Power efficiency is making a difference!

[AMDave]

Power efficiency may be a paramount feature in consumer electronics, but who’s to say it’s not important in the PC space as well?
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[Jason1478963]

This sure sounds like good news to the high end gamers

[Dirk Broer]

From efficiency point of view our next mobos should be Quad SuperMicro's with four 16-core Opteron Opteron 6262 HE.
They need just 65(ACP)-85(TDP) Watt for those 16 cores. You can fill the mobo's with 512 Gb RAM (ECC Registered, Oké),
and it has a PCI-E (16) slot, so with a DDR3 HD 6670 it costs next to nothing to crunch 64 CPU WUs, 64 FreeHALs, 1 WuProp,
and -with the aid of a smart app_inbfo.xml- two GPU WUs= 131 processes at a time!

[NeoGen]

If I start saving now I may get enough money for a setup like that by the time CPUs have 64 cores instead of 16, and then a 4-socket mobo would yield 256 cores

[Jason1478963]

or wait for them to upgrade and buy the 16 core pulls that end up on ebay

[Dirk Broer]

Our Hong-Kong based members can already collect Quad 16-cores via ebay (saves $180 on the shipping)

[Bender10]

you do know these are 4 quad cores (16), not 4 - 16 core (64)...

[Dirk Broer]

Argh! You are right. Still an impressive machine, but not so much as I thought it was.
AMDHorus can keep his/her money in his/her pockets.

[AMDave]

... AMDHorus can keep his/her money in his/her pockets.

You can say "HIS".
Horus was the son of the goddess Isis. The god of sky, war and hunting and conqueror of Set.
The story about his conception is a little bit deviant.
(Horus, that is, not AMDHorus. Otherwise he'd be running around smiting people and keeping today's journalists very busy indeed )

[plonk420]

i'll just hold out for cheap Trinitys and stack them on paper trays like S Starbuck ;)