Quote Originally Posted by lutjens View Post
The fact that the CPUs were already on sale makes this a moot statement by AMD. Having a 12 core CPU is impressive, but the reduced clock speed of these processors is a definite drawback to implementations that don't fully exercise all the cores. Intel's Turbo is a very nice feature and it's a shame a similar feature isn't present on Magny-Cours, that would disable/deep idle some cores and boost clock speeds in appropriate situations. I think that Beckton, when Intel finally decides to grace us with its presence, will be more than competitive though.
There servers that will be built using these chips are unlikely to be idle for very long, on any number of cores. To my mind, that's a desktop feature rather than something I would include when speccing out a server. If cores are Idle, something is wrong with the system as a whole (No numbers being fed to it to crunch), or you have hugely over-specced the system.