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Date: 24/10/2006 Discuss in forums Author: Hasan Soyer

Here at Vadim computers we always like to experiment and see what we can come up with and it would appear that this time our R & D team have come up with one hell of a machine. Recently with Intel releasing the Xeon (Woodcrest) processors it meant that AMD were left to struggle. However we should know by now to never ever count out a company like AMD who dominated for so long the gaming market. When striking back at the Woodcrest AMD took a page out of Intel book with the release of the Opteron Socket F processor series, by having them pin less. So now we have been introduced to the AMD Opteron Socket F, lets find out a bit about it. They feature the 12xx series designed for single CPU usage, the 22xx series which are 2 way processors designed for workstation use and the 82xx series which are 8way processors and are designed for dealing with major amounts of information (replacement for rendering farms). They are all dual core and have 1207 pins. They have DDR2 support and the 12xx and the 22xx series are somewhat overclockable, which is nice.

The Socket F CPU box.

 

Because these processors are new, they are in high demand, which means that they are hard to get. So we thought that because we had them at our disposal we would have some fun with them. When we say have some fun with them, we mean making one absolute monster of a machine, which eats any other machine in its path, spits out the screws then laughs about it. So now we know this is one bad machine, lets see what its made of:

 

Case Lian-Li V2100 Plus Silver
PSU Enermax Galaxy Modular 1000W
Motherboard Asus KFN32-D Dual Opteron DDR2 SLI SAS
CPU AMD Opteron 2218 2way socket F (2.6Ghz-2Mb-0.09m) X 2
Memory 1024Mb DDRII 667MHz ECC LP PSD21G6672ER (Patriot) X 4
Graphics Nvidia 7950 GX2 1024Mb PCIe TVO X 2
Hard Drive 150Gb Raptor X 10000 16mb E-SATA
Storage HD 250Gb WD Caviar RE 7200 16mb Cache SATA II NCQ X2


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