Author: Jay Urbanski
Date: 14:34:17 12/10/03
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On December 08, 2003 at 23:48:20, Slater Wold wrote: >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. :) Why wouldn't it be as fast - it's the same chip.
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