Author: Peter Stayne
Date: 11:06:08 05/17/03
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nVidia demoed the nForce3 at the AMDZone LAN party, but yeah, they won't be available for at least a month or two. And, as far as I know, it is the only Opteron motherboard chipset with AGP. Note that there are two types of Xeons, the regular Xeons and the Xeon-M's. Regular Xeons are meant for 2-way, and the Xeon-M's go 2 to 64-way. There is only one line of Opterons, which go 2 to 64-way. Also, Opterons are 64-bit CPU's, whereas Xeons are not. To get 64-bit computing out of an Intel CPU, you'd have to go to the WAY overpriced Itaniums which have a completely different way to achieve 64-bits, a way that requires programs written directly for it. You can run legacy programs on it, but the CPU is forced to emulate the old code, which makes it much slower. Pete On May 17, 2003 at 12:43:09, Dan Andersson wrote: > The Athlon XP and Athlon MP is the equivalent CPU duo to Intels P4 and Xeon. >The Opteron is based on a new CPU core by AMD. > As for motherboards you will get up to date info on the http://www.amdzone.com/ >website. The NForce 3 looks tasty. But I don't think it is available yet. > >MvH Dan Andersson
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