Quote Originally Posted by Fatfool View Post
Personally, I really don't see the point of pushing overclockable 2P systems at this point. It'll be a vanity project.

This seems like a non issue since a version of what was suggested already exists, this time not some 4x4 'I run hotter and suck at performance' quadfire.


Asus KCMA-D8
http://www.asus.com/product.aspx?P_I...ZS5&templete=3



MSI MS-91F7
http://www.msi.com/product/server/MS-91F7.html


Now, as we all know, the SR5670 will be able to support bulldozer. These 2 boards are Pseudo ATX sized boards which will fit a home enthusiast's case easily. Unbuffered desktop memory is also supported.

To get high performance, simply rely on these sort of boards. They're relatively cheap, the processors are relatively cheap. at ~700USD, (2*Opteron 4180) for the board and processors, they can quite conceivably beat intel's flagship model (i7 980x) at multithreaded benchies. Perhaps take one of these boards, throw on a couple of heatsinks to make it look the part while inflating the price. Ignore processor overclocking (or relabel the chipset to something like 990FX2 to disassociate it before allowing some limited adjustments), maintaining the same SKU as the server parts, allow slight memory frequency adjustment to DDR3 1600mhz which bulldozer is supposed to use, (since most sticks can't do that right now) to make sure bulldozer runs optimally.

Crossfire support with a couple more PCI-E x16 slots to make it look attractive, screw Nvidia's licensing to keep the cost down. Let's face it, most enthusiasts don't need that much processing performance. They like.. play games. Just gotta convince them they need it and should choose it over sandy bridge.

Send it for reviews for mindshare and emphasise on 'zomg we can match/beat the i7 at half the price'. Rinse and repeat it with bulldozer against sandy bridge.

Oh come on, remember the dual GPU strategy pursued by ATi/AMD? Slap 2 relatively lower performance parts and beat the competition by being 'the fastest single card' available.

Btw, I'm getting the MSI MS-91F7
Actually after reading this post, I think that's the root I'm going to take with my new build. Thanks for the links.