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Subject: Re: AMD Opteron 2 x 248

Author: Anthony Cozzie

Date: 10:17:17 05/16/04

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On May 16, 2004 at 11:10:01, Omid David Tabibi wrote:

>On May 16, 2004 at 11:05:36, Anthony Cozzie wrote:
>
>>On May 16, 2004 at 10:14:07, K. Burcham wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>Has anyone here posted using dual 248s?
>>>wonder how 2 x 248 AMD compares to dual Xeon 3.2 with 1 meg cache running a 32
>>>bit commercial chess program?
>>>
>>>http://www.newegg.com/app/viewProductDesc.asp?description=19-103-433&depa=0
>>>
>>>http://www.monarchcomputer.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=M&Product_Code=120140
>>>
>>>kburcham
>>
>>Like Mike, I have dual 246s.  Opteron is a great CPU, but the 64-bit software
>>isn't *quite* ready, at least on linux (imo).
>
>Running 32 bit chess engines on that system, how much speedup do you see in
>comparison to the fastest 32 bit dual system?

I wouldn't know.  I only run 64 bit linux :)  It works pretty well, but there
are definitely a few bugs left.  I'd say in another 3 months my system will be
good enough for me (new nvidia drivers, a few more kernel versions).

anthony

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>>anthony



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