Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 05:58:57 09/25/03
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On September 24, 2003 at 19:35:23, Peter Stayne wrote: >After going dual for my last 2 machines, I'm really bot interested in going back >to single. That said, I'm very impressed by the performance of the new Athlons, >but have noticed that a single Opteron, while certainly very fast, lags behind >the FX-51. Is there a dual-capable version of the FX-51 coming out? Or should I >just wait for higher clocked Opterons? > >Pete matter of short period of time before 2.2Ghz opterons will be there too. parallel capable cpu's are used in some very important machines so they need more time to thoroughly test them to be 100% sure there is not bugs in the cpu. Of course they can never be 100% sure like intel has proven with itanium (it was clocked too high at 1ghz for a long period of time instead of 800Mhz), but the chances there is bugs in them considerable get reduced when they test them longer. Best regards, Vincent
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