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The 4184 opterons are currently six core not magny's eight core BUT run at 2.8ghz at a more affordable cost.
One result I can find http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=4766705&postcount=341 with a pair running the cinebench.
Granted they aren't reaching 4.0ghz but it's...
I see the current gen desktop cpus have plummeted but the opterons seem to have held value.
I'm jonesing to go the socket c32 route with a pair of opterons (4184) in the near term then Bulldoze myself.
The cost is still up there for the Lisbons.....
It's a socket c32 (server) board. The bulldozer (server) cpu will slip into it unlike the bulldozer (client) cpu into am3 boards.
The only question is will a simple bios update fix the fact that the board currently accepts 1333mem and bulldozer (server) will accept 1600mem.
This board...
Chipset problems have delayed the unveiling. Good thing they didn't run a sarcastic ad at valentines about a competitors chipset issues.
I'll still probably pick up a ASUS KCMA-D8 in '11 qtr4 and go dual 4200 (server cpu) bulldozers seeing that it appears they're going to run over 3-3.5...