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Subject: Re: Memory benchmark comparison DDR333 vs RDRAM PC1066 !

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 13:17:25 12/02/02

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On December 02, 2002 at 15:35:25, Aaron Gordon wrote:

>
>Take a look at this:
>http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/DownloadableAssets/MPF_Hammer_Presentation.PDF
>>

What am I looking for?  I'm talking _today_ not next year...  for example...



>>
>>I hope they can deliver a quad opteron for a resonable price.  They were talking
>>about quad
>>K7's two years ago and not a single instance has shown up yet.  Intel talked
>>about the 8-way
>>boxes a while back and delivered a kludge there, using a "fusion" chipset to tie
>>two 4-way
>>clusters of processors together into a single 8-way box, but with terrible
>>memory performance.
>>They tried to offset that by only offering 2M L2 caches, but that drove the
>>price up and didn't
>>help memory-bound large applications at all...  I hope the quad opterons don't
>>end up in
>>never-never land as the 8-way boxes did..
>
>Here's a picture of a Quad opteron system if for some reason you think it's
>never going to happen...
>http://www.amdzone.com/articleimages/cpu/hammer/4popt.JPG
>There are many Dual Opterons out as well..

They had "pictures" of quad K7 MBs as well.  Never saw one on the street,
however.
Again, I don't see how to evaluate what's gonna be.  Just what is that we can
get our hands
on...




>
>>If I recall, the 4=way dual 2.0ghz xeon is the fastest PC-class machine around
>>right now,
>>by a wide margin.  And the heavier the load placed on it, the wider that gap
>>becomes...



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