AMD Opteron Any Good?

[TechBoyJK]

I was looking at some Appro Servers with the AMD Opteron chipset. Are they any good? I noticed that the Opteron has 1mb of cache and that surely has to help.

 

[Megatomic]

I don't think anyone here has used one yet. They haven't been for sale AFAIK.

 

[bgeh]

yup, they're coming out on April 21st or 22nd.
they should be good (unless they fail our expectations like how NV30 did)
so who's gonna be the guinea pig and splurge on the Opteron(Sledgehammer) and give us some benchies?

 

[rommelrommel]

One, two, three, NOT ME!

 

[Boyne7]

i definately would if i had money for the cpu and a mobo
if you want to send me money its greatly appreciated

 

[Armitage]

I just got a quote back from appro on AthlonMP, Xeon & Opteron 1U boxes. Basic spec: dual CPU, 1GB RAM, gigabit ethernet, 40GB IDE

AthlonMP 2.13GHz (2600+) : $1854
Xeon 2.4 GHz : $1758 (they were supposed to quote me 2.8GHz ... still waiting on revision)
Opteron 1.4 GHz (2600+) : $1981

Was suprised that the new platform doesn't carry a bigger price premium. We're not strongly considering it though, I'm not interested in being a beta tester, and there aren't any real benchmarks out that I could find (except some SPEC numbers allegedly from a 2GHz Opteron)

 

[AtomicDude512]

Digit-Life's report on the Athlon 64 and Opteron
Arts-Technica x86-64 guide

Those are the best resources I have come up for these CPU's right now, hope they are helpful.

 

[Kell]

Originally posted by: ergeorge
I just got a quote back from appro on AthlonMP, Xeon & Opteron 1U boxes. Basic spec: dual CPU, 1GB RAM, gigabit ethernet, 40GB IDE

AthlonMP 2.13GHz (2600+) : $1854
Xeon 2.4 GHz : $1758 (they were supposed to quote me 2.8GHz ... still waiting on revision)
Opteron 1.4 GHz (2600+) : $1981

Was suprised that the new platform doesn't carry a bigger price premium. We're not strongly considering it though, I'm not interested in being a beta tester, and there aren't any real benchmarks out that I could find (except some SPEC numbers allegedly from a 2GHz Opteron)

Shame I can't afford such a box right now, else I might actually spend the moola to be a gineau pig. Porting my personal Linux distro to Alpha just isn't challenging enough anymore...

 

[BoberFett]

It's too bad they didn't come out a little sooner. My company is finally stepping up into the big leagues of servers and dropping some of puny little Dell servers and moving to the IBM xSeries. An 8-way x440 should be making it's way into the office soon. Not even including the fiber channel and backup hardware, that box is going to run us at least $55,000.

It would have been nice to have some competition in the high end x86 server market to drop prices a bit. Right now the x440 we're going to get is an 8-way Xeon 1.9Ghz 1MB cache. To step up to the 2.0Ghz 2MB cache would run another $25,000.

Seeing some of the initial database benchmarks from Anands review, it looks like the Opteron has the potential to become a real competitor in the high end x86 server space.

Oh well, maybe someday I'll get to play with a big Opteron box.

 

[AkumaX]

I just got a quote back from appro on AthlonMP, Xeon & Opteron 1U boxes. Basic spec: dual CPU, 1GB RAM, gigabit ethernet, 40GB IDE

Opteron 1.4 GHz (2600+) : $1981


damn that sounds like a huge ripoff.. the cpu alone is worth ->

newegg, 2600+ (1.4ghz) = $295

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: AkumaX
I just got a quote back from appro on AthlonMP, Xeon & Opteron 1U boxes. Basic spec: dual CPU, 1GB RAM, gigabit ethernet, 40GB IDE

Opteron 1.4 GHz (2600+) : $1981


damn that sounds like a huge ripoff.. the cpu alone is worth ->

newegg, 2600+ (1.4ghz) = $295

It's hardly in a $30 case tho, is it....

 

[BoberFett]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: AkumaX
I just got a quote back from appro on AthlonMP, Xeon & Opteron 1U boxes. Basic spec: dual CPU, 1GB RAM, gigabit ethernet, 40GB IDE

Opteron 1.4 GHz (2600+) : $1981


damn that sounds like a huge ripoff.. the cpu alone is worth ->

newegg, 2600+ (1.4ghz) = $295

It's hardly in a $30 case tho, is it....

And besides, a competing Intel based server is similarly priced. So in it's market segment, the Opteron is competitive.

 

[Armitage]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero

Originally posted by: AkumaX
I just got a quote back from appro on AthlonMP, Xeon & Opteron 1U boxes. Basic spec: dual CPU, 1GB RAM, gigabit ethernet, 40GB IDE

Opteron 1.4 GHz (2600+) : $1981


damn that sounds like a huge ripoff.. the cpu alone is worth ->

newegg, 2600+ (1.4ghz) = $295

It's hardly in a $30 case tho, is it....

LoL, yea, your not going to find many parts for one of these @ NewEgg

Let's see
CPU's 2x$300 = $600
Memory 4 x $70 = $280 (256 MB kingston low profile reg. ecc)
MB: $484 (Just found one by MSI on pricewatch ... price is probably inline with the Rioworks)
HD: $80 (generic 40GB IDE)

So, without the nice 1U case, just the parts come to around $1440 retail. Rackmount cases ussually start around $150 to $200 and go up fast. Plus 1U rackmount cases take a bit more in the thermal design department the ripping in a blowhole with a dremel