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I can buy an 8 core AMD Opteron for $18 with shipping on eBay, so actually I can get 128 cores of x86 for $288. Checkmate lazy journalists. Proof: https://www
by parsimo2010 5y ago
I can buy an 8 core AMD Opteron for $18 with shipping on eBay, so actually I can get 128 cores of x86 for $288. Checkmate lazy journalists.
Proof: https://www.ebay.com/itm/234113546803 https://www.ebay.com/itm/234113546803 and that's just the first result when I searched AMD Opteron. I didn't even bother to see whether I could do better with other old CPUs.
- iosjunkie 5y agoNow source 5,000 CPUs at that price for your new data center.
- BatteryMountain 5y agoAnd it eats a cool 95W per chip.
- rbanffy 5y agoNot counting the 16 PSU's. There are use cases for having 16 machines instead of one 16 times more powerful one, but lower TCO isn't one of them.