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Subject: Re: Reason why a Dual Xeon is chosen instead of AMD MP ?

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 07:39:08 05/17/03

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On May 17, 2003 at 10:18:06, Dan Andersson wrote:

>And as the Opteron is primarily a server CPU it is by default SMP enabled.
> There is an Athlon 64 for the desktop on the AMD roadmap. It is based on the
>same core as the Opteron. And it is indicated that it won't be SMP enabled.
>Rumours abound about modifications to the roadmap though.

Is the Opteron compared to Athlon kind of like Xeon vs. P4 (ie. server vs.
non-server)?

And also, I was looking at how much an Opteron system would cost to build, and I
couldn't find any "opteron motherboards". What kind of motherboards does it use?

• Re: Reason why a Dual Xeon is chosen instead of AMD MP ? Dan Andersson 09:43:09 05/17/03
  • Re: Reason why a Dual Xeon is chosen instead of AMD MP ? Peter Stayne 11:06:08 05/17/03

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