Gadgetory

got some other samples in the mail today that I think might be interesting or they might not it depends whether I can get a compatible board or not now cameraman don't get too close yet but I want you to guess who the manufacturer of this processor is okay so I'm going to show you the top and I'm going to show you the bottom and if you guessed Intel you're wrong because these are actually AMD Opteron c-32 socket chips so they look just like an LGA 775 chip but they have a completely different number of pins on the bottom and these are these ones in particular are quad cores but these are available in quad core and six core configurations even though they're these little tiny chips see they came in green boxes that's how you should have known that they were AMD anyway I'm just gonna go ahead and put that back in there but these are actually compatible with up to two way motherboards so that means you can actually throw two of their six core processors which are actually only around I think 300 to 400 dollars for the entry level six core ones into a dual socket motherboard and you can make one heck of a workstation for a pretty good value with 12 physical cores so this is a pretty neat one and whether or not I'm able to do anything with this will depend on whether I can get my hands on a board or not because I can't find anything yet but the big difference between this and their previous generation Opterons is these do support ddr3 so that's a that's a new Opteron thing and yet so they are two ways socket compatible also they're just crazily inexpensive given that they're brand new Opteron chips you