Author: Michael P. Nance Sr.
Date: 11:26:15 08/24/03
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On August 24, 2003 at 14:14:10, Eugene Nalimov wrote: >On August 24, 2003 at 13:51:09, Peter Stayne wrote: > >>>Everything I've seen and read show higher benchmarks for the Opteron over >>>Itainium. What information can You present to make Me change My mind? >> >>I wouldn't try and change your mind. :) Itanium is too expensive and too >>proprietary. Going Opteron is the way to go. Just gotta wait a bit for an x86-64 >>compatible Windows. > >Itanium is exactly as proprietary as Opteron is -- each CPU is manufactured by >exactly one company, and no other company licensed it (yet). And you can buy >Itanium2 system for ~$3,300 -- comparable to what you should pay for high-end >x86 system (though that x86 system will have more, and probably will be faster). > >Thanks, >Eugene Eugene,that's how i see it also. I haven't seen anything yet to convince Me to purchase a Itainium system. We're talking about a system for playing Chess Program only. I understand the release of x86-64 isn't far off.
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