AMD: the world's first 12-core processor has begun shipping

[Hawkeye4077]

As a former member of the failed QuadFX platform, I would say it was ASUS's fault the platform failed. BUT AMD could have helped keep it going. The CPUs were already there, just renamed to FX series. Asus launched a board that had TONS of upswing if it had been maintained. Only 3 processors released for it.. 3.. And we paid what.. 299 apiece for them (FX70s here). When the quad cores came out, asus just let it fall apart. There was an AMD based chipset designed and built (at least one anyways) It never ever saw the light of day.
After much complaining by its customers Asus finally gave us a Quad Core capable motherboard in the form of the WS /B. It will run barcelonas, but not Shanghai's. Tyan gave us the -E series motherboards that run Quad and Hex cores now. Once again, Asus had the opportunity to latch on to some more market share. Let's call that board the KFN32-D SL /SH. Shanghai capable. ASUS even has a section for it on their website with a bios release.. but guess what we don't have.. a motherboard.

Even MSI has a couple boards out there that run Quads. The Speedster series. But MSI has given very limited support on them. The only reason the Speedster2 is in the US is because a member of 2CPU went to MSI directly and got boards imported over. But it is already EOL'd the day after it came out.

If AMD wanted us to have an enthusiast level 2S platform, we would have one already, made by somebody...
Intel made their own ie Skulltrail.

I have owned every AMD multicpu capable platform since the 760MPX days. I fear that Socket F will be my last at least through the G34 series. I am just not seeing any motherboards out there that would fit my requirement of multiple video cards. And SLI is dead on AMD workstation boards. That does not help either.

Bottom line: Until AMD asks it's board makers to come up with something for us, they wont. The new AMD SR chipsets are a goldmine. CrossfireX boards in an ATX size are easily doable.