As to which is better for video editing (or any application), you are best off to check with your software vendor. They will let you know if cores or clocks are going to be the advantage. It is always very difficult to say one platform is always better than the other. When the world changed from single core to multiple cores, there was no longer a single attribute (clock speed) on which to base decisions. Multithreading capability became more important at that point.

Also, I have another question. I’ve noticed that every time a CPU gains more cores, the clock speed gets lowered (I’m guessing due to heat), if you do a lot of video editing, sound encoding, etc., which is better in a work station? An Opteron 2393 SE (4 cores @ 3.1GHz), Opteron 2439 SE (6-cores @ 2.8GHz), Opteron 6136 (8-cores @ 2.4GHz) or the Opteron 6176 SE (12-cores @ 2.3GHz)?

Just curious as to the differences.

Is the Opteron 1389 faster than a phenom II 965be in gaming and other applikations like benchmarking?

and how good is it for overclocking?

The server processors are not targeted at enthusiasts, so I do not believe that you will see desktop-class products based on these processors. Especially due to the fact that most desktop workloads don’t fully maximize the 4 cores that are available today, adding more cores (which will generally reduce the clock speed and increase the price) might not be the best solution for desktop customers – but will be welcome for server environments where having 24+ threads active at one time would be a big benefit.

There are also many 135x opterons
out there @ a much lower $. – basically competing
with 138x.

Now skipping forward to next year

Is there any hope for AMD enthusiasts world wide that there will be dual c32/g34 motherboards made with their “needs”
(OC headroom,voltage/tweaking options,multiple PCIe slots etc.,) in mind ?

I realize that it (c32/g34) is a server platform,however why not kill 2 rabis with one shot?

There are many interested in 2P solutions – espicially if it’s priced competitively,besides the “usual server people” market.
The number of distributed computing projects (like folding at home) is increasing,so as the depend
for more CPU cores/PCIe slots per motherboard.

2P enthusiast systems with 2×6 (12 cores Lisbon) should be very competitive even VS the upcoming i9. An asymmetrical answer.

In other words will AMD bring back “FASN8 v2″ ?

That difference in how TDP is interpreted can be confusing for customers, so we took the customers’ suggestion and published ACP to show what a typical stressed environment would look like because few, if anyone, gets close to seeing TDP consumption on AMD servers.