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		rorrr on Nov 15, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Intel's 50-Core Xeon Phi: The New Era of Inexpensi... You need just three of AMDs CPUs to match the 60 1GHz cores. You can get a quad CPU motherboard relatively cheaply: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Arima-Quad-CPU-16-Core-AMD-Opteron-M... Also don't forget to add the same costs for the Phi solution.

astrodust on Nov 15, 2012 [–]

The 50-core Xeon sounded great up until the $2600 price tag. You can buy a lot of CPU cores for that much money if you have quad-socket boards like that.

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