Bulldoze that Sandy Bridge

[jeremyshaw]

( Looks around the house and sees 4 dual socket machines)
I won't argue your numbers but for some of us the dualies present some real world advantages.
1)They are electrically more efficient for the work done than the singles
2) The boards are generally much better built and last longer
I have SM boards that are up to 10 years old and still function as they did on day one
3) Space: I can get X amount of work done in a smaller footprint than if I went to single socket boards.
4) They have more E-PEEN!

Number 1+2 are the key to me.
Inital cost is heavier but to me knowing that I'm cutting my electrical costs EVERY day for the 2-3 years between upgrades makes my decisions.
In this day of 16 cents per KW/H it is the smart move.
The added initial cost is recovered over that timeframe and the dependability factor means no downtime form RMA's and such.
Since 2003 when I first went to a dualie ( SM X5DAE) I've never had an issue with a board.

Lol, JF-AMD already went through the same thing with me on the [H] forums. I think my last shot was at the feasibility of C32, since it seemed like half a G34 to me (so why not get 1 G34, lol), but he mentioned company research already showed there was sufficient interest with large enough orders to allow devoting precious company engineering (and by relation, marketing - and no, these aren't the pretty artwork guys) resources over to this. Same thing for enthusiast dual socket. Research in this direction, however, pointed to a very minority market share and interest overall to even bother. I never got a clear answer whether is was even possible for a 3rd party to build an OCable G34 board or something, but I never directly asked that question, either.

He likes mentioning the Quad FX issue, but IMO, back then, going from dual to quad was already a given for the next gen. But nowadays, going from 12-->24 isn't going to be as quick, nor likely (just IMO). While I don't think AMD should devote resources over to this (Intel doesn't, after all), I do hope it's actually possible to BCLK OC an Opty through a 3rd party (looking at Sapphire's snab of eVGA's mobo team, lol).