AMD Socket C32 DDR3 Quad Core Opteron Engineering Sample Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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got some other samples in the mail today that I think might be interesting or
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they might not it depends whether I can get a compatible board or not now
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cameraman don't get too close yet but I want you to guess who the manufacturer
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of this processor is okay so I'm going to show you the top and I'm going to
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show you the bottom and if you guessed
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Intel you're wrong because these are
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actually AMD opteron C32 socket chips so
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they look just like an lga775 chip but
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they have a completely different number of pins on the bottom and these are
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these ones in particular are quad cores but these are available in quad core and
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six core configurations even though they're these little tiny chips see they
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came in green boxes that's how you should have known uh that they were AMD
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anyway I'm just going to go ahead and put that back in there but these are
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actually compatible with up to two-way motherboards so that means you can
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actually throw two of their six core processors which are actually only
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around I think $300 to $400 for the entry-level six core ones into a dual
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socket motherboard and you can make one heck of a workstation for a a pretty
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good value with 12 physical cores so uh
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this is a pretty neat one and whether or not I'm able to do anything with this
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will depend on whether I can get my hands on a board or not cuz I can't find
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anything yet but the big difference between this and their previous generation op Rons is these do support
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DDR three so that's a that's a new optron thing and uh yeah so they are
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two-way socket compatible also they're just crazily inexpensive given that they
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brand new updraw Chips