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AMD to Demo '8-socket' Dual-Core Opteron System

flynn_nrg writes "AMD will make the first public demonstration of a system built out of its dual-core processors today, the result of a strategy first made public almost a year ago. Two-core Opteron chips aren't due to ship until the middle of 2005, but AMD will have four of parts running inside an HP ProLiant DL585 server at its Austin plant later today."

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  1. Ad on site by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Is it it me or does anybody else see the irony in the fact that there was an intel advert on the page.....

    1. Re:Ad on site by ms00skr · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's you.

      (We all use adblock)

  2. Are they made of... by kayak334 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Unobtainium?

    Oh wait, that's something else...

  3. Names? by Skraut · · Score: 5, Funny

    Would the Consumer model of these chips be called BiAthlons?

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  4. Dammit, AMD -- quit inventing shit so fast! by IronChefMorimoto · · Score: 5, Funny

    Christ in handbag covered in ketchup, AMD! WHY THE HELL CAN YOU NOT JUST TAKE A BREAK AND STOP INVENTING SHIT FOR A WEEK OR MONTH?!

    It's not like AMD fanboys like me are going to let you go out of business. We'll still be buying your underpriced processors in lieu of Intel chips for a while to come. And we'll show up in droves to events that really tout your existing product line. We swear it!

    Plus, Intel isn't moving that fast these days. I've read more about trouble for Intel in the past 2 months than I have in 5 years. "We can't frabricate this processor, or we're not responsible if that processor burns your house down when you overclock it." Come on! Let 'em catch up for the sheer thrill of beating 'em again with the Athlon128 a few years down the road.

    Why? Why my insistence on your taking a g'damned break from inventing shit? You wanna know why?

    I can't f---ing afford another upgrade for awhile. So stop it. Now. Dammit. Give us poor home built computer bastards a break.

    And pass the f---ing message off to those asshats at ATI and Nvidia.

    John Carmack too -- the "we're gonna change the world of gaming hardware every time we release a new game" motherf---er.

    IronChefMorimoto

    1. Re:Dammit, AMD -- quit inventing shit so fast! by biz0r · · Score: 5, Funny

      Am I the only one who can almost hear Cartman screaming this at the top of his lungs?

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  5. Re:Speeeed by Epistax · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't knock that vaporware! I plan on running Duke Nukem Forever on that. (They sound compatible)

  6. Re:Imagine ... by RsG · · Score: 5, Funny

    Imagine... a /. story where beowulf clusters are on topic! Imagine a cluser of cluster computing stories! Imagine... wait, what do you mean "recursive loo[NO CARRIER]

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