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Subject: Re: Intel vs. AMD bias on this site

Author: Charles Worthington

Date: 10:59:10 02/18/03

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On February 18, 2003 at 13:56:31, Matt Taylor wrote:

>On February 18, 2003 at 13:11:24, Charles Worthington wrote:
>
>>I have noticed a great deal of bias toward Intel products on this site so I have
>>decided to conduct an experiment using the fastest Intel Xeon technology and
>>AMDs fastest system which I assume is the 2600. If not someone please correct me
>>before I order it. I propose to test both systems using Deep fritz 7 with hash
>>settings of 32,64,128,256, 512, and 1024MB. Both systems will be equipped with
>>the best technology offered by current manufacturers. There will be no
>>overclocking. They will be tested "as is" out of the box using the Deep Fritz 7
>>Program and Deepfritzmark test. I will post the pictures here for all hash
>>settings then we can lay the speculation to rest. Someone please leave me a post
>>telling me which AMD Motherboard would be best to conduct this test with. As for
>>Xeon testing I will conduct one test with hyperthreading enabled and one with it
>>disabled. I know everyone likes to clock the AMD processors up but I will not
>>overclock the Xeons (even if I could). They are far too expensive to be
>>tinkering with and I doubt that the Intel board would support it anyhow. So we
>>put them side to side and let them shoot it out and then it ends the speculation
>>once and for all.
>
>HP sells some AMD systems, but I don't know if they sell duals. The best way to
>get AMD systems is to look around for some online (or local) shop that will
>build a custom machine and warranty it. There are two SMP chipsets for Socket 7:
>the AMD 760MP and the AMD 760MPX. As far as motherboard goes, I don't know if
>that -really- makes a big difference.
>
>You could always poke around on http://www.2cpu.com/ Traditionally I think they
>have been AMD biased; I'm not sure.
>
>So basically each system will have identical components except for motherboard
>and processors?
>
>-Matt

That is the plan yes Mat. I want to end the speculation so I will equip each
machine as closely as possible with equivalent hardware. Thank you for the info.



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