devguybut it's a shame that none of the boards that can house a Magny Cours processor are overclockable

HillBeastWell I can see it will come soon. EVGA and Asus are known for making some pretty crazy boards, so I can see they will make a ROG or Classified board at some point. Cooler like this will probably encourage them more.

Let me give you 2 scenarios where this could hurt us:

1. Some bonehead decides to overclock a server because he has figured out how to do it. Server crashes. Bad. Data lost, database corrupted. CIO comes to find out what happend. "Servers shouldn't allow overclocking. Why in the hell were we buying consumer products? Get these things out of here now."

2. Some person is intel biased and is trying to talk their company into spending more for intel. They point to the fact that Opteron can be overclocked as "proof" that this is a gamer platform and not a "real server."


The potential sales to consumers could never compensate for the potential damage to the brand. Every morning I walk into my office and try to convince the world that there is a better choice for server platforms. Anything that detracts from that will not help me meet my goals.

You have to look at this from a pure revenue and market perspective. I understand that everyone wants to overclock my parts. That meets your goals, not mine. There is no way that selling Opteron into the enthusiast market could allow us to grow share. We have run the numbers, it just won't work.

devguySeriously doubt it. I'll let Mr Fruehe do the talking:



Whether I, or anyone else agrees, that's the ruling. Still, there's always octal core bulldozers to make beg for mercy next year! Alternatively, if you got some heavily multi-threaded load to take care of, you can always gun it down with a handful of (albeit expensive) Magny-Cours processors.