Originally posted by: SlowSpyder
I imagine most system admins aren't sitting in their data centers overclocking their servers though.
AHAHAHAHA.. yeah, but i had to post it ya know.
I wouldnt be aigo unless i did.
im getting a gainstown next week. I'll be ploping it on WCG. I dont know the exact chips yet, and im trying to get my friend whose close with supermicro to sport me an earily board.
But let me tell you guys this, WCG is a competitive thing, and i know a couple of guys that are scared silly when i drop my gainstown because they know i wont just fly... i'll probably shoot out into orbit.
16 simultanious threads is VERY HARD to beat. Thats 2 cpu's btw.
Get a Dunington style setup, and you see
4 physical cpu's, 16 physicals cores, and 32 SIMULTANIOUS THREADS. ROFL
I dont have much hope for shanghi in this area. As i said 32 threads on 1 machine is truely scary.
I dont know about you guys, but to me, that is UBER SEXY.
If you ask me, Yorkfield is still good enough and will be for at least 3 yrs for the average to advance users (shanghi will hopefully be on par or greater), but power users like me.. Lots of fun to be expected in 2009.
I'll be refreshing 2 yorkfield systems, in replacements to 1 gainstown and a i7 965 before the end of this year. :T