Author: Joshua Shriver
Date: 20:42:36 06/04/04
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> > >Opterons and alphas are great. Opteron is already significantly faster, >however, and the gap will continue to widen as alpha development seems to have >slowed way down since the rights were sold by DEC a few years back. > >Opteron looks like the chip of the future, although Intel has announced an >X86-64 processor for their future, scheduled for early next year. How it will >perform given the opteron will be 2 years old is a question to be answered once >it is actually delivered... I really love opterons.. I've been reading articles about it since it's inception. Particularly Opteron vs Itanium chips which I believe are also 64bit. I still feel the best bang for the bug is Opteron. Out of the myriad of benchmarks and articles only a handfew have said Intanium is faster... since I can't afford either I wont give comments, but I'll still put my money on an Opteron (lol once I get the money, particularly a dual Opteron). As for opteron's is the instruction set different between the different versions? I'd like to get started with assembly coded cores asap, so I'd like to buy the cheapest opteron possible (perhaps in 5-6 months money and tuition payment pending) and if the instruction set is relatively the same then there shouldn't be a problem. Meanwhile I still have my eyes on a cheap $500 dell, better than nothing (hoping if I dont get an opteron to at least get the ubercheep dell in 5-6 months). Sincerely, Joshua Shriver
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