Advice on CPUs with lots of cores

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jefforange89 on 13 May 2010

Soleron said:
Sounds good.

You may even be able to upgrade to AMD's 8-core Bulldozers in 2011, they should be socket compatible.

This.

Especially if you get a 800-series board, since, being more recent than 700-series ones, would more likely get BIOS updates come time for Bulldozer, probably.

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NJ5 on 08 June 2010

I bought the aforementioned parts (with the 785 motherboard), built the PC yesterday and it's working great after a BIOS update (though older linux kernel versions make the CPU go to 1.5 GHz if cool'n quiet is enabled).

And of course I already found bottlenecks in my multithreaded implementation, so it's already getting the job done :)

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