Monday, August 4, 2014

Where are the Opteron X Series C/APUs?

On May 29, 2013 AMD announced the launch of the Opteron X-Series family of processors, namely the Opteron X1150, and the Opteron X2150. At the time of this writing, it looks like only the latter survived.

For those of you searching for these chips, and boards to run them on, I hate to disappoint you, but:

I was in contact with someone at AMD, and was told that these chips are currently being sold to partners only, and are not in the consumer channels at this time. Whether they will become available to consumers later is not known. Bummer Fisherman.

This means you can technically buy them, but only as part of an HP ProLiant m700 Moonshot server cartridge. Of course that is going to cost a wee bit more than the $99 MSRP given for the X2150 chip. How much more? Rougly $37,000. That cost reflects the minimum purchase of "15 identically configured Moonshot m700 server cartridges." (source). Double Bummer Fisherman.

So for now, I won't be building my NAS server with Opteron parts. Instead, I will probably start with an HP ProLiant N54L, and do a few upgrades.

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