Because, at the time, that was the best available from both AMD and Intel.
Also, if I'm not mistaken, the prices were similar at the time. Notice
that I was careful to also do some core vs. core benchmarks so that you
could possibly compare dual-core Xeons and look forward to Barcelona.
Kris Kersey (Augustus), mused, then expounded:
Not to start an argument but from personal experience I have never had a
problem with NVIDIA or Broadcom chips. Sometimes Marvell has not been as
good though.
To add to Augustus' comment, I've used a lot of Broadcom and Intel network
chips
Conway S. Smith, mused, then expounded:
About registered vs. unbuffered memory, my understanding is that for
systems w/ lots of memory (more than 4 GiB), the registers are a Good
Thing(tm). I don't really understand the electrical engineering behind
how memory memory controllers work, so I
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 18:43:19 +0100
Beso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
why not using the athlon x2 on am2 socket? they work also with the
non registered memory (which is needed for opterons and is not an
optional as it is for athlons), which has a higher cost when compared
to the non registered
Well, I've been looking at the new Barcelona Opteron 2300 series,
which have 4 cores each can be used in dual socket motherboards, for
a total of 8 cores in the system. The 2 or 4 cores in an Athlon X2
system really would be sufficient for my needs, but then my current box
is still pretty
Am Samstag 10 November 2007 schrieb Kris Kersey (Augustus):
Conway,
While it doesn't include Barcelona, you probably would find my review on
LinuxHardware.org very useful in your decision making process. It
included the latest Xeon and Opteron processors using Tyan boards. Here's
the link:
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Bernhard Auzinger wrote:
Why do you compare two systems with a different number of cores? 2x2Core
athlon64 versus 2x4Core Core2Duo.
I'm not sure that equal number of cores is the appropriate benchmark to
use. I'd focus on equal total system
Conway,
While it doesn't include Barcelona, you probably would find my review on
LinuxHardware.org very useful in your decision making process. It
included the latest Xeon and Opteron processors using Tyan boards. Here's
the link:
On Sat, 10 Nov 2007 16:28:01 + (UTC)
Kris Kersey (Augustus) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Conway,
While it doesn't include Barcelona, you probably would find my review
on LinuxHardware.org very useful in your decision making process. It
included the latest Xeon and Opteron processors using
On this day, 10-November-2007 11:11 PM, Conway S. Smith wrote:
I'm in the planning stages of assembling a new box for myself @ home,
and I'm debating if I want to go with AMD Opteron or Intel Xeon. I've
been focusing on Tyan motherboards, as I've heard here on the list that
they've got really
I would have a Barcelona review up but AMD didn't come through this last
time on review samples. It is important to keep in mind that 32-bit
Windows performance is a big difference than 64-bit Linux performance.
Keep this in mind when looking at 99% of the reviews out there.
Thanks,
Kris
Not to start an argument but from personal experience I have never had a
problem with NVIDIA or Broadcom chips. Sometimes Marvell has not been as
good though.
Thanks,
Kris Kersey (Augustus)
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