AMD offers Opteron upgrade discounts

AMD said today it's offering discounts to businesses that upgrade their servers with newer Opteron processors. The chip designer's new upgrade program includes a discount of up to 35 per cent for dual- and quad-core Opterons, as well as AMD's sex-core "Istanbul" processor currently on track for release in the second half of …

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sex-core Istanbul opterons

Let us hope it is not a soft launch!

[Anonymous Coward]

sex-core "Istanbul"

Wow, I'd love to see one of those

[Trevor Pott]

AMD :(

Hooray? Maybe about the time Istanbul comes out, we will actually start seeing Shanghai parts in disties in Canada?

AMD's Canadian support is bollocks!

[Walter Brown]

@ Trevor Pott RE:AMD :(

"AMD's Canadian support is bollocks!"

perhaps, maybe, or maybe its your who are too stupid to know where to find the Shanghai Opterons, one quick look thru newegg.ca, you know the canadian version of newegg.com found me 10 Shanghai varients of the Opteron, all of which are in stock.

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2000340727%201652541691%201652845590&name=Shanghai

Or maybe you want prefab'd machines, here a few HP servers with opteron's again from HP's candian site.

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/sm/WF06a/15351-15351-241434-3328424-3328424-3683705.html

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/sm/WF06a/15351-15351-3328410-3328419-3328419-3644728.html?jumpid=reg_R1002_CAEN

http://h10010.www1.hp.com/wwpc/ca/en/sm/WF06a/15351-15351-3328412-241475-241475-3646113.html

So as you see, i dont really think its AMD's canadian support that's bullocks, i think its you sir, who just doesn't know how / where to look...

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[Trevor Pott]

@Walter Brown

Notice I spoke specifically about disties. I certainly could pay retail price, or deal directly with Tier 1s, but that defeats the entire purpose of disties. We use almost exclusively AMD products, and I would really love to get off of the dual cores, and at least into some Barcelonas, let alone Shanghai.

Unfortunately, the choices boil down to several unacceptable alternatives. I could use an American Distie, (AMD’s official party line.) This is prohibitively expensive, and ignores the long relationship we have built with our existing distributor. We could buy the parts retail, ship the components to our distie for inclusion in servers, (that way we get the distie’s hardware warrantee.) Again: prohibitively expensive. The other alternative is to use a Tier 1, which is completely pointless if you are branding your own servers, (or in our case pre-configuring them for a very narrow market that a stock Tier 1 setup is useless for.) Much as I hate Intel motherboards, FBDIMMs, and a bunch of the crap that goes with Intel, Nehalems are so far beyond Opteron 22XXs that we’re now deploying Intel servers for the first time in over five years.

AMD’s Canadian distie support is complete crap. End of.

So please, before you go spouting that other people are idiots, read what they write, and try very hard to comprehend.

(And just as a further side note, NCIX kicks newegg’s proverbial as a Canadian etailer.)

[James]

Utterly Pointless Pedantry

Two is Latin is duo not dual.

Four in Latin is quattuor not quod

Six in Latin is sex.

6-core should probably be seni-core from the Latin senus meaning six each.

For those who say it should be hexa-core, hex is the Greek for six.

I'll get my coat.