64 physical cores for under $300??!!

[daweakling]

I was recently on eBay browsing around for cheap server high core count CPUs. I remembered about AMD Opteron series and was interested in pricing. On eBay the 16 Core Opterons usually go for $50-$70 each. Pair that with the Dell PowerEdge quad socket server board and some RAM and you have a 64 core power house.

 

I was wondering what the communities opinions on this are?

 

Will it run Crysis on 1600FPS?       Just kidding no, IPC sucks on these probably.

[PCGuy_5960]

1 minute ago, sebastiansulb said:

I was wondering what the communities opinions on this are?

Why the fuck not?

[Nicnac]

sounds fun but what are you gonna do with a bunch of slow cores?

[Billy_Mays]

Holy shit I would go for that any day

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, Nicnac said:

sounds fun but what are you gonna do with a bunch of slow cores?

But it will be decent lots of cores 

[Damascus]

1 minute ago, Nicnac said:

sounds fun but what are you gonna do with a bunch of slow cores?

This

[NinJake]

Nope. Money better spent elsewhere.

[Electronics Wizardy]

Well this will suck power, like 500w idle. So running it all the time will be very expensive, like over 100 a month in power.

 

Speed wise, a dual 2011 is faster in most uses and only a bit more.

 

You also can't run desktop windows with a quad socket system.

[Zando_]

1 minute ago, Nicnac said:

sounds fun but what are you gonna do with a bunch of slow cores?

Brag. 

[PCGuy_5960]

2 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

what are you gonna do with a bunch of slow cores?

Have fun

[Guest]

When 64GB of RAM costs more than 64 core cpu...

[daweakling]

8 minutes ago, PCGuy_5960 said:

what are you gonna do with a bunch of slow cores?

Have the highest mutlicore Cinebench score in the world?

 

EDIT:

10 minutes ago, Nicnac said:

sounds fun but what are you gonna do with a bunch of slow cores?

[porina]

Yes if only to say you have a 64 core system. Probably no for any other reason. Wonder what Cinebench would look like on it...

[Gaurav S Rao]

Wow,64 CORES UNDER $300? Linus should make a video about that and maybe someone else,then its like "Go to hell!" for threadripper,even if it is slow cores for Opeteron,it is 4x more cores and ESPECIALLY,f*ck the 7700K and absolutely wreck the sh*tty celeron and the budget Pentium,wonder if it has HT (Not heard of a opteron before) so probably if there was a 8 CPU Motherboard then... Ok,seems like a VERY VERY SHINY DEAL!

[TheRandomness]

4 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

Well this will suck power, like 500w idle. So running it all the time will be very expensive, like over 100 a month in power.

 

Speed wise, a dual 2011 is faster in most uses and only a bit more.

 

You also can't run desktop windows with a quad socket system.

Windows 10 Pro For Workstation PCs^TM aims to change that, allowing quad socket configurations, and 6TB of RAM. So if you could just wait for that...

[PCGuy_5960]

2 minutes ago, sebastiansulb said:

Have the highest mutlicore Cinebench score in the world?

You quoted the wrong person and no, you won't have the highest Cinebench score

[Guest]

Just now, sebastiansulb said:

Have the highest mutlicore Cinebench score in the world?

That's what Threadripper 2 are for

On 6/5/2017 at 8:40 PM, NumLock21 said:

 

 

Update 2:

Thanks to @PCGuy_5960 for leaked benchmark!

 

 

 

 

[PCGuy_5960]

4 minutes ago, deXxterlab97 said:

When 64GB of RAM costs more than 64 core cpu...

Depends on what RAM.....  64GB of DDR RAM won't be that expensive

[Guest]

Just now, PCGuy_5960 said:

Depends on what RAM.....  64GB of DDR RAM won't be that expensive

Opteron uses mostly DDR3 http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/server/opteron/6000/6300

[PCGuy_5960]

Just now, deXxterlab97 said:

Opteron uses mostly DDR3 http://www.amd.com/en-us/products/server/opteron/6000/6300

Yeah, I thought you were talking about RAM prices in general

[SCHISCHKA]

Can someone please make a Cookie Monster meme about amd cores?

[SpaceGhostC2C]

I would already have it if I could find those prices over here... (Are those 627x Opterons?)

 

Except the $300 price doesn't seem to be true there either: the "grab a quad socket board" part can't be assumed to be exactly at $0... I don't expect you'll end up with a working 64 core system at $300, I can tell you that ($70-80 per CPU means you are at $280-320 for a start).

The best I've seen was around EUR 450 for a dual socket server with one 12 or 16 core Opteron (can't remember), and around EUR 550 for a dual socket server with both sockets occupied. And separate Opterons were all over the place. I honestly expect the bill for a quad-CPU server to be closer to $900-1000.

 

But hey, if you do find/build a 64-core system for ~EUR 300, send it my way, I'll pay for it  

[daweakling]

28 minutes ago, SpaceGhostC2C said:

I would already have it if I could find those prices over here... (Are those 627x Opterons?)

 

Except the $300 price doesn't seem to be true there either: the "grab a quad socket board" part can't be assumed to be exactly at $0... I don't expect you'll end up with a working 64 core system at $300, I can tell you that ($70-80 per CPU means you are at $280-320 for a start).

The best I've seen was around EUR 450 for a dual socket server with one 12 or 16 core Opteron (can't remember), and around EUR 550 for a dual socket server with both sockets occupied. And separate Opterons were all over the place. I honestly expect the bill for a quad-CPU server to be closer to $900-1000.

 

But hey, if you do find/build a 64-core system for ~EUR 300, send it my way, I'll pay for it  

This may not be the most powerful Opteron chip but it is 16 cores. 

 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/AMD-Opteron-6276-OS6276WKTGGGU-16-Core-2-3GHz-16MB-L3-Cache-CPU-Processor-/172642515743?hash=item28324bbb1f:g:x-AAAOSwr~lYtbax

 

$30 per CPU

[Jumper118]

you do realise its 2x fx8350 one one cpu that are down clocked  

[mariushm]

You can look at http://cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php to get a sort of idea about what performance to expect from them.

 

Opteron 6276 is listed on that site as having a score of 9011 .. consider the Ryzen 1800x has a score of 15376 .

 

Also you'd need a lot of DDR3 ECC memory, maybe 4 or 8 sticks per cpu ... and most software would tend to stick to one CPU or would have slightly degraded performance if there's threads on multiple physical processors, and they'll use a lot of power.