Author: Brian Richardson
Date: 20:37:04 04/18/03
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On April 18, 2003 at 21:58:06, Jonas Bylund wrote: >>Thanks. But so far, nobody has told me if it was a faster machine than the dual >>Xeon 2.8Ghz...which was the thing i wanted to know. > >Yes dual AMD 2600+ would be faster. > >Jonas I have a dual AMD system and the SMP scalability efficiency is at best about 1.7x vs 1.9x for the Intel systems, IIRC, so the systems would be about equal if the 2600+ CPUs were each about as fast as the 3GHz Intels. Why not wait a few weeks for the newer AMD Opteron (also 64 bit)?
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