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Subject: Re: Faster than dual Xeon 2.8GHz?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 04:46:47 04/19/03

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No bad news this time, the opteron systems will be out the 21st of april !!

http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9039
http://www.amdzone.com/



On April 19, 2003 at 01:02:15, Pavel Blokhine wrote:

>On April 18, 2003 at 23:37:04, Brian Richardson wrote:
>
>>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)?
>
>
>How many weeks do we have to wait? Isn't it delayed already?



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