Quote Originally Posted by JF-AMD View Post
Well, 24 cores with a single memory controller and front side bus? They don't talk a lot about that one.
Actually 4 FSBs and quad channel FBDIMM memory controller who could simultaneously read-write to memory.

Not perfect by any means, but it offered an upgrade path and in most server benchmarks it was equal or better than the quad socket Opterons. I am sure that without the precise tunning it sucked more, but it kept market share in the high end.