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AMD revs Opterons up to 6300 for fat x86 servers

Customers using big ol' fat x86 servers didn't have much to jump for joy about this year. There just isn't a lot going on. But to make things interesting, AMD is now goosing the performance of its top-end parts with the launch of its "Abu Dhabi" Opteron 6300s, which sport the "Piledriver" cores that already debuted in the FX …

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Monday 5th November 2012 14:57 GMT Chris 228

This is a good CPU for servers

Abu Dhabi brings a ~40% improvement in performance per watt so this is a nice performance bump for servers.

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Monday 5th November 2012 20:29 GMT Anonymous Coward

Fantastic news

said almost no one.

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