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Subject: Re: Question about comparison pentium4 Xeon2 and opteron

Author: Drexel,Michael

Date: 03:16:51 06/21/04

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On June 21, 2004 at 05:24:33, Uri Blass wrote:

>I talk with a person and he tells me that Xeon2 is new technology and it is
>better than opteron but it simply does not fit the price that I agree to pay for
>it.
>
>He tells me that there are graphs that tell that Xeon2 is better.
>When I tell him that people in this forum told me that pentium4 is relatively
>bad he tells me that he does not trust them(note that he does not deal with
>chess programs).
>
>He also claims that the Athlon64 is the same quality as the pentium4 that I can
>get.
>He agrees that the opteron is better than normal pentium4 that I can get.
>
>I am interested to know if there is some graph that shows that the opteron and
>even the athlon64 is better than the xeon2.
>
>Note that I probably decided to go for the opteron and not for the athlon
>because people tell me that I cannot get responsibility for the athlon64 and are
>against it.
>
>Hopefully I can also get opteron248 in the next 2 weeks for the tournament with
>responsibility not directly from IBM with a cheaper price.
>
>Uri

Do you talk about Dual or a single processor systems?

The opteron 248 is only 2.2 Ghz and 2-way.

If you need a single processor system buy an A64 3800+ or FX-53.

Michael



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