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AMD's Six-Core Istanbul Opterons
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."
Nope but it sucks for anything processor intensive.
My 3.5ghz Pentium 4 with the useless multithreading turned off kicks the crap out of HD Video rendering than anything else. I can view full res REDOne video on it smooth without hickups, I CANT on a Quad core 2.2ghz box.
They need to get the core speeds back up. Even in gaming the Single core old crap with a higher clock speed kicks the new stuff.
6 cores rocks for SQL or anything that is SMP capable and highly multithreaded. But for the stuff that is single thread design or needs brute force you cant beat a high clock rate cingle core.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.