Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 09:29:00 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. I have not seen anything about a "xeon 2". Not that it matters. I have posted benchmark numbers for Crafty, showing that a single 2.2ghz opteron is more than twice as fast as a single-CPU xeon 2.8ghz Intel box. I wouldn't think twice about which to choose myself... > >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
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