Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 18:14:57 08/06/03
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On August 06, 2003 at 20:40:03, Jonas Bylund wrote: >On August 06, 2003 at 20:10:10, Vincent Diepeveen wrote: > >>On August 06, 2003 at 19:28:13, Jorge Pichard wrote: >> >>>On August 06, 2003 at 18:58:49, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>On August 06, 2003 at 18:25:11, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>>> >>>>>I had the opportunity to run some tests on an Opteron machine, >>>>>and benchmarked Deep Sjeng on it, compared to the Athlon XP. >>>>> >>>>>The Opteron is 70% faster. >>>>> >>>>>Yes, that's _SEVENTY PERCENTS FASTER_, clock for clock. >>>>> >>>>>An 1.6Ghz Opteron runs Deep Sjeng faster than a (nonexisting) 2.7Ghz >>>>>Athlon XP would. >>>>> >>>>>Operating system was Linux 2.4.19, SuSE 8.0 Opteron version. >>>>>I compiled with GCC 3.2.2, pure (portable) C source. >>>>> >>>>>The reference was a MSVC6 SP5 with Processor Pack compile, with >>>>>optimized parameters, and with optimized assembly language for >>>>>most move generators and some other functions. (The fastest IA32 >>>>>binary I have for the Athlon), running on an Athlon XP of the same >>>>>clockspeed. >>>> >>>>An 8 CPU version might play pretty well, I imagine. >>> >>>I prefer to buy a Jaguar or a BMW than buying an 8X CPU version :-) >> >>it going to be tough to buy a new BMW or new jag here instead of >>a quad opteron. >> >>the cpu's are like $2100 a piece. x 4 = $10k. >>so for $20k perhaps you're ready. > >That's a LOT, here in Denmark they cost 910$ per processor (1800 Mhz) and a dual the quad opterons called 846 are more than 2 times more expensive than the dual capable opterons which are called 246 in this case. officially the 846 goes up to 8 processors but i am not sure whether we will see 8 processor opteron machines to get sold. let's sit and wait i bet for now they will just keep in 'beta' forever. >MB for opteron costs 595$, that's 2415 for a 2x1800 opteron, which with ram, >grapics card, etc would be less than 3500$. that's all dual stuff. quad is way way more expensive usually. let's sit and wait for mainboard prizes of quads too. also you'll need bigger power supplies and hotswappable stuff and big aluminium stuff for quads. quads really are more than 2 times more expensive than duals :) >Jonas
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