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Subject: Re: Faster than dual Xeon 2.8GHz?

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 07:06:01 04/20/03

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On April 19, 2003 at 08:19:55, Vincent Lejeune wrote:

>one more link, 11 pages, very slow server :
>
>http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/cpu/display/athlon64.html

caution, may be this was a beta hardware :
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=9046


>
>On April 19, 2003 at 07:46:47, Vincent Lejeune wrote:
>
>>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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