Le_Forgeron <jgr### [at] freefr> wrote:
> Le 08/02/2014 05:56, Jörg 'Yadgar' Bleimann nous fit lire :
> > Hi(gh)!
> >
> > On 05.02.2014 01:20, [GDS|Entropy] wrote:
> >
> >> All I know is my next machine will have a second x5660 and another
> >> 24gb in this:
> >> http://www.evga.com/articles/00537/
>
> Nice. Better buy both xeon at the same time (or be prepared to have to
> replace the old one with a fresh one when adding the second:
> availability of identical & compatible xeon is not warranted).
> btw, xeon are not cheap (but pretty nice) when compared to i3/i5/i7.
>
> > And, of course, the CPU should be an AMD K10 hexadeka-core running at 5
> > GHz (currently a K10 hexa-core at 3.853 GHz)...
>
> But K10 is not compatible with xeon-socket, and it's old technology
> (Bulldozer / Piledriver continue the serie)
> some opteron 6200 (8 modules, 16 "cores")... but they top at 3.6GHz in
> turbo mode... full load is less than 3 GHz.
>
> while dreaming... Abu-Dhabi opteron 16 cores (2x4 modules) are
> quad-processor ok. (Interlagos too)
> Just need a naughty motherboard with 4 sockets... and a damn budget for
> the cooling and the power supply (at 140W per cpu, you can sell on ebay
> your old heater!)
>
> --
> Only have 24GB ram, and 6HT/12 cores... It's small, but it was affordable.

Unfortunately, the performance of current AMD processors don't compare well to
Intel's. Povray performance on 8-module Interlagos is worse than a 6-core Sandy
Bridge, i7 3930K.

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