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AMD's six-core Istanbul tips up in Japan
Konichiwa
Mon Jun 22 2009, 09:44
IT LOOKS LIKE AMD fanbois may have to book the next flight to Tokyo if they want to get their hands on the firm's new Istanbul six-core Opterons as quickly as possible.
Pics of AMD's latest edition to its Opteron family sitting pretty on shelves in the Akhibara district have tipped up on AKIBA PC Hotline. The Shanghai upgrades made on 45nm and sporting 6MB L3 cache and six cores for Socket F systems are available in all their 2.2GHz, 2.4GHz and 2.6GHz glory.
According to TweakTown, the 2.2GHz and 2.4GHz versions also seem to have magically appeared at Newegg, too. µ
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I'm pretty sure "akiba" is not pejorative, just a sometimes-used "cute" name in roman type.
Akiba is slang
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=40000727&Description=istanbul&name=Processors%20-%20Servers
O-2427 2.2 = $500
O-2431 2.4 = $700
Oh, well. I guess I could build a 12 core AMD render-box instead of an i7-975 machine for about the same price. Well, RAM and mobo may be a lil more... Nope, low-end 1207x2 board and RDDR2-800 are about the same as 1366x1 board and UDDR3.
@Raven737: Istanbul is a server processor, and this one is destined for two socket servers and workstations.
Is that i7 destined for dual-socket machines, or single socket machines?
~457 Euro for the 2.2 GHz Version. So 76 Euro / Core. The Intel i7 @ 2.67 GHz is cheaper at only 62.5 Euro / Core here in euroland.
But of course the 457 Euro is an Akhibara price. Regular street price in a few weeks will probably (hopefully) be a lot lower.