Quote Originally Posted by RaV666 View Post
While i dont agree with some of your points (cuda isnt answer to everything).
Affordable 2P system for enthusiasts wouldnt cost that much.
That isnt changing the fact that on the Intel side, there is one ;-) .So again discussion is moot.And JF tells us also that high end single socket are useless, which is, well, only thing he can say considering AMD doesnt plan on having one.
While i appreciate JF`s many contributions to the forum and general knowledge he can bring to us.Fact is, he works for the company, so he MUST say what they expect of him and FULLY support current AMD strategy. Besides, affordable desktop 2P system is not what opteron salesman wants.
You still dont get it ???

Desktop 2p systems with overclocking possibility with the unlocked multi that you guys ask means alot of money for testing,validation and R&D, sure its not as much as much as making a complete new cpu but its still a couple of millions dollars that amd must get back in profits. Also for the there is one on the intel side, you know that its a special one-off project made by EVGA and not Intel, its EVGA alone that decided to make a overclockable 2p xeon motherboard, i am pretty sure it has cost them a load of money in R&D and that they might still not be making any money from it but getting the R&D cost back from others revenues. Intel did nothing in this case, we were just lucky to have the possibility to overclock the bclk on those xeon and still you have to shell out 2 grand for 2 decent cpu with decent locked multi if you want to have any decent overclock. Also, yes i know cuda isnt the awnser to everything but both cuda and opengl will help alot in the future for typical workstation user as the industry standards software are starting to use them to get faster results.

And for high end single socket didnt i just proved in my last post the usefulness of them ? Overclockers, high-end gamers and crunchers all wants high end single socket, they might not be a big group alone but together they are enough to be worth the R&D.

As for affordable desktop 2p systems from opetrons, i guess you never looked at some amd 2p systems ??? a single socket lga 1366 will set you about 700$ here in canada for the cpu,mobo and memory while a 2p amd socket c32 rig could cost me about 900$, i find it quite affordable.