got some other samples in the mail today that I think might be interesting or
they might not it depends whether I can get a compatible board or not now
cameraman don't get too close yet but I want you to guess who the manufacturer
of this processor is okay so I'm going to show you the top and I'm going to
show you the bottom and if you guessed
Intel you're wrong because these are
actually AMD opteron C32 socket chips so
they look just like an lga775 chip but
they have a completely different number of pins on the bottom and these are
these ones in particular are quad cores but these are available in quad core and
six core configurations even though they're these little tiny chips see they
came in green boxes that's how you should have known uh that they were AMD
anyway I'm just going to go ahead and put that back in there but these are
actually compatible with up to two-way motherboards so that means you can
actually throw two of their six core processors which are actually only
around I think $300 to $400 for the entry-level six core ones into a dual
socket motherboard and you can make one heck of a workstation for a a pretty
good value with 12 physical cores so uh
this is a pretty neat one and whether or not I'm able to do anything with this
will depend on whether I can get my hands on a board or not cuz I can't find
anything yet but the big difference between this and their previous generation op Rons is these do support
DDR three so that's a that's a new optron thing and uh yeah so they are
two-way socket compatible also they're just crazily inexpensive given that they
brand new updraw Chips