Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:27:14 06/21/04
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On June 21, 2004 at 06:16:51, Drexel,Michael wrote: >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 Opteron148 with the option to do it 248 in the future is more correct. I will probably not add now another processor and I prefer to waste the money on things like a better compiler than the visual C++6 compiler. Uri
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