Watch this demo of the upcoming AMD Opteron 6000 Series processor running in a 4P server – for a total of 48 cores.
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i’m not shure what to buy, an X2 Athlon 64 at 2500 mhz or an X2 Opteron at 2000 mhz… is opteron good only for servers?
Some Opterons (series 2xx) were the real speed devils back in the Pentium era.
Yes you can use an Opteron chip and you’ll need Registered memory for that and you’ll lose [...]

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It seems that every few years, IT settles down somewhat. While processors get ever faster, storage gets ever bigger, and bandwidth grows exponentially, the workloads these technologies support seem to stabilize to a certain degree. Not long ago, Windows Active Directory domain controllers required their own dedicated server for even small shops, while now they’re almost an afterthought in terms of performance. Where Microsoft Exchange used to be the 800-pound gorilla in most organizations, it can now generally be relegated to a VM, or at least a middle-tier server.

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