AMD's Six-Core Istanbul Opterons 123
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EconolineCrush writes "AMD's latest 'Istanbul' Opterons add two cores per socket, for a grand total of six. Despite the extra cores, these new chips reside within the same power envelope as existing quad-core Opterons, and they're drop-in compatible with current systems. The Tech Report has an in-depth review of the new chips, comparing their performance and power efficiency with that of Intel's Nehalem-based Xeons. Istanbul fares surprisingly well, particularly when one considers its performance-power ratio with highly parallelized workloads."
Istanbul runs your shells (Score:5, Funny)
Through shaves as tight as Dardanelles.
Use Opteron and the gallant foamy,
And thus avoid Gallipoli [wikipedia.org].
Burma Shave
Wasn't it called Constantinople? (Score:5, Funny)
I won't be impressed until it is... (Score:2, Funny)
Over 9000!!!!1
Fuck Everything, We're Doing Six Cores (Score:5, Funny)
Here's the report from Engineering. Someone put it in the bathroom: I want to wipe my ass with it. They don't tell me what to inventI tell them. And I'm telling them to stick two more cores in there. I don't care how. Make the cores so thin they're invisible. I don't care if they have to cram the sixth blade in perpendicular to the other five, just do it!
Finally (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Wasn't it called Constantinople? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Istanbul runs your shells (Score:5, Funny)
Istanbul was Constantinople
Now it's Istanbul, not Constantinople
So if you were waiting for a core called Constantinople
It's been released as Istanbul.
Yeah, but... (Score:2, Funny)
Yeah, but will it run a hackintosh?
Re:Istanbul runs your shells (Score:3, Funny)
Then, not so much.