AMD’s processors aren’t the type of performance champs you’ve come to expect, on the workstation and server front things tend to get a bit stranger.People in the market for new servers are looking beyond rendering speeds and are focusing…
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There’s something to be said about a new CPU that can perform faster than its predecessor all within the same thermal envelope and, thankfully, is capable of “socketing” into place so you can keep your old hardware.AMD’s upcoming 6-core “Istanbul”…
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AMD is setting itself up for a June launch of its next CPU. The chip code named “Istanbul” will fall into its Opteron lineup of workstation and server processors. Given its 6 core design and virtualization focused tweaks it’ll…
If there’s one thing to learn about business it’s that time is money, so waiting on your servers to get you the data you need invariably ends up costing you. AnandTech has thoughtfully decided to run the latest in server…
Read more Server CPUs Compared, Database Query Fun
Nothing spells excitement like a server processor refresh. AMD’s quad core Opterons have been the darling of the virtualization community, holding sizable performance leads over the competition in that category but not much else. In comes their 45nm die shrink…
