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Subject: Re: needing advice on new dual processor computer

Author: Vincent Diepeveen

Date: 06:54:44 07/07/03

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On July 07, 2003 at 06:27:01, DANIEL JOHNSON wrote:

>I PLAN ON BUILDING A NEW DUAL PROCESSOR COMPUTER WHEN THE NEW .09 CHIPS COME OUT
>WITH 1 MEG CACHE MEMORY AND HAS 800 MHZ FSB ABOUT 3GB MEMORY, DUAL SATA RAID 0
>HDD, SWIFTECH WATERCOOLING, BUT WHICH CPU WILL BE BEST AND FASTEST FOR CHESS
>OPTERON OR XEON

Opteron will be trivially in 0.09

The question will be however whether the Xeon is there first in 0.09 or Opteron.

I bet at Xeon in 0.09 being there first.

As you can see at specint crafty at 64 bits opteron is 1562 rated. this is just
1.8Ghz opteron.

I expect for other programs when compiled 64 bits and with 16 GPRs and all the
other features to be equally fast (having same speed difference). Fritz is
assembly. In order to run in 64 bits at opteron Frans Morsch must now already be
working at that as for every new processor he has to rewrite nearly the entire
program. Must be hard worker that guy! I do not know whether he is busy with
that now. I can ask if you want to.

For most of the others it is just a simple recompile though. The work i need in
diep to profit from having more bits in each register (the other advantages you
get for free or are compiler issues) is not little either. It will give a few %
though.

When opteron is there in 0.09 it will be way faster, the chip is actually
designed to be 0.09. It is however interesting to see what speed the prescott
core will have in 0.09, i guess they will be sooner there.

Best regards,
Vincent





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