Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 00:34:18 06/15/04
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On June 15, 2004 at 02:34:57, Aaron Gordon wrote: >#1: Athlon FX 939 pin (low latency DDR, non-registered/non-ECC memory) >#2: Athlon 64 754 pin (same ram as 939) >#3: Opteron / Athlon FX 940 pin (registered+ECC, higher latency) >#4: Centrino (souped up Pentium 3) >#5: Athlon XP / MP (Tbred/Barton cores) >#6: Pentium 3 (Coppermine/Tualatin) / Xeon (P3 core) >#7: Pentium 4 (Northwood) / Xeon (P4 core) >#8: Pentium 4 (Prescott, runs about 20% slower than Northwood at chess per MHz) I'm not quite as familiar with the subtleties of these setups as you are, so I have a question. Is the situation that the Athlon FX and Athlon 64 can use lower latency memory, while the Opteron requires higher latency memory? If this is the case, why is this the case? Does it have to do with the multiprocessing capabilities of the Opteron?
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