Jerry McBride <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [ ... ]
> Dan, can you do me a favor? Next time you boot the opteron, make a > note what the bogomip number is and let us know... I'm curious what > it reports. bogomips aren't worth anything in real life. they tend to reflect the clock frequency of the CPU and little else. at work we've just ordered a dual 1.8Ghz Opteron to do numbercrunching. we've also bought a dual 3.06Ghz P4 Xeon with HyperThreading to compare it with, but there is very little doubt that the Opteron will come out first. have a peek at this review from Toms Hardware: <url: http://www6.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/index.html > (sigh, I three more days until the boxes come to me. but they won't be running Gentoo though.) [ ... ] -- Terje -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
