Happy Sledgehammer Day! Opteron turns 6

[primesuspect]

Happy Sledgehammer Day! Opteron turns 6 (http://icrontic.com/articles/happy-sledgehammer-day-opteron-turns-6)

[Thrax]

No 16 year old nerds were badtouched in the birth of this friendship.

[pigflipper]

No 16 year old nerds were badtouched in the birth of this friendship.

Well, not many anyways.

[Gate28]

Not enough 16 year old nerds were badtouched in the birth of this friendship.

You guys are weird.

[Thrax]

Lame fix.

[drasnor]

My sledgehammers power the home server now.

-drasnor :fold:

[primesuspect]

This server is still running on Opteron 840s

[drasnor]

Oh, you cool kids and your 800-series Opterons. Meanwhile, this plebe makes do with a pair of 248's.

-drasnor :fold:

[DrLiam]

No 16 year old nerds were badtouched in the birth of this friendship.

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[Cliff_Forster]

I always say, its impossible to understand where we are going, without a true appreciation of history. (I'm a bit of a history nerd)

So this applies to tech as well, the path of innovation, understanding where we have come from, it gives you a solid appreciation of the amazing things that are available now, and what might come.

Folks, less than fifteen years ago, you were using windows 3.1 on a CPU that ran at less than 100 megahertz. Think about that, let it sink in.

Go back just six years, the dawn of the 64 bit era, be it single core. Now your going to slap six cores in a chip for amazing multitasking throughput and virtulazation, and its not just for big corporations, small businesses can afford this tech, its amazing how far tech has come.

So, where will we be in another six years? I suppose that's why we are all nuts for this stuff? I love the history of it, and I enjoy dreaming of the possibility's.

[AlexDeGruven]

This is very true. Today (even though it's a Mac, it was the fastest price I could find) you can pick up a dual-socket quad-core (8 cores) system with 6GB of RAM (Remember when RAM was over $100 per MB? I sure do) for $3,200. In two years, that level of hardware will be running in sub-$1,000 machines.

Progress is great as long as you're not trying to keep up with it.

[Callred]

I just retired my Opteron 180 powering an nVidia 8800 GTS 320 that played Crysis (medium settings, but Still) Great chip.

When I took over as a support tech for a young ISP in '95 I was still walking people through setting up Trumpet Winsock for their connections on 14.4k modems (even 9600 baud). As the first one in the group to load Win 95 at home, I became the 'expert' on it. Fun times.. we have come a long way.

[drasnor]

I always say, its impossible to understand where we are going, without a true appreciation of history. (I'm a bit of a history nerd)

So this applies to tech as well, the path of innovation, understanding where we have come from, it gives you a solid appreciation of the amazing things that are available now, and what might come.

Folks, less than fifteen years ago, you were using windows 3.1 on a CPU that ran at less than 100 megahertz. Think about that, let it sink in.Fifteen years ago I had a Mac. The only PCs I'd ever seen ran DOS. I had a 12" fixed-resolution monitor that was bigger than the school's 9" monitors. I also had an AOL account, used BBSes, played MUDs, played multiplayer Descent on a null modem cable, and used ClarisWorks and HyperCard for word processing and presentations respectively. I ran all of my games from a top-loading NEC 2x SCSI CD-ROM.

That floppy? I copied that floppy.

-drasnor :fold:

[Shorty]

I believe I was the first to see one in the flesh as I was visiting MSIs offices down South and they just got their first batch in from AMD :p