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Subject: Re: Dual core opterons to be pin for pin compatible with single core uni

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 19:59:24 04/29/04

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On April 29, 2004 at 18:15:52, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On April 29, 2004 at 16:01:15, Robert Pawlak wrote:
>
>>Could make for a really cost effective SMP system!
>>
>>http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1574332,00.asp
>>
>>Bob
>
>What exactly does "dual core" mean? Is it similar to the hyper threading of
>Intel (where we see some speed improvements, but lesser than true dual machine),
>or can we expect close to a 2x speedup for one of these "dual core" chips?


Dual core is just like having two cpus, not the "sorta-like-2-slower-cpus" in
hyper-threading.  It means that at that point in time, any opteron will be a
dual-cpu box.



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