Author: K. Burcham
Date: 07:23:07 02/19/03
Pricwatch.com CPU $488 Xeon 2.8Ghz $282 AMD MP 2600+ Motherboard Dual XEON up to 2.8+ $302 Dual AMD MP $164 Intel Total $1278 AMD Total $728 These are just a few of the benchtests available, there are many others. At the GamePC site, under Sandra CPU benchtest, the 2 x 2800mhz Xeon (14646) is equal to the 2 x 2000mhz AMD MP (14618). This is w/o Hyperthreading. With HT enabled it junps to 16574. I will have to see how this HT works with the SMP chess programs to know increase in kns. Some things I know for myself: 1. for sometime now, there has been a big difference in price between Intel and AMD. 2. at my place of employment, which is not computer related business, i have repaired many pc's. i always take fritz program and run benchtest to check kns with new cpu. i have found that there is a big difference in these two brands with fritztest. maybe not fair because "not optimized", i am not sure of this point. This will be interesting to see the tests of these new smp processors. one thing i have learned about all this, whatever the results---it will be very temporary. my 2 x 1533mhz amd mp is slow compared to new hardware. CPU Benchtests http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=x28amp24&page=8 http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/cpu_charts-28.html http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/200203131/dual-07.html http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20020826/p4_2800-09.html http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=axp3000&page=5 kburcham
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