Author: Slater Wold
Date: 20:48:20 12/08/03
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On December 08, 2003 at 23:44:28, Jay Urbanski wrote: >On December 08, 2003 at 21:48:01, Slater Wold wrote: > >>The FX51 in SMP would be nice. I believe it's the fastest chess CPU out there >>right now (per SPEC). But from reading, it's not going to happen. >> >>CPU - Results (Crafty only) >> >>O246 - 1754 (64) >>FX51 - 1504 (32) >>O246 - 1371 (32) >>6432 - 1370 (32) >>XP32 - 1324 >>XP28 - 1310 (Same mobo, the XP2800+ did better than the XP3000+. WEIRD.) >>XP30 - 1292 >>3.2E - 1252 >>3.2X - 1233 >>3.2 - 1198 >>I1.5 - 1195 (Itanium 2 1.5Ghz) > >AMD has confirmed to me that FX-51 will never be SMP. That is one of the >defining characterstics of Opteron (much like only Xeon is SMP in Intel-land). >The Opteron 248 is your SMP-capable FX-51. Also, I don't hold much hope of >anyone "unlocking" an FX-51 from what I understand of how SMP capability is >enforced in the chips. I don't believe the 248 will be as fast as the FX51, but close. But still close enough for me. :)
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