Z3r01 wrote: 
Got a couple of Opterons going spare?
Spare is a tough word. Yes I have like hundreds in my cube right now, but obviously I can't give them away since they are "Engineering Samples" and used for my tests.
Sorry
Z3r01 wrote:Well joking aside, I can vouch that the Athlon 64 is an awesome beast. I was fortunate enough to catch a 3400+ Clawhammer (754 pins, 1MB cache), before they changed to the Newcastle core which if I am correct is clocked 200MHz higher than the Clawhammer counterparts with 512KB cache.
Just wondering, but why did they stop producing the Atlhon 64 3400+ Clawhammer, was it simply not cost effective to have such a large cache on what was inteded to be a mid range processor? (if you consider the semprons to be budget and FX's to be enthusiast)
You're lucky you got a 1MB claw.
As for why, I'm not in marketing or upper management, but my educated guess would be that since a 1 MB cache is difficult to fabricate, it'd be stupid of us to throw away perfectly good die that have say 512 or 256K of cache that works perfectly fine (as well as the core). Especially if there is a market for it.
You'll notice we divided the market into high performance server/high performance desktop/desktop/value and as expected, the cache size varies based on the market segment.
Intel does the same thing with an awful processor called "Celeron" as well as the cache thing.
) people knew what I meant, but I failed to be specific, and it could have been misleading to some people who don't really know about hardware.
