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Subject: Re: G4 vs AMD 64 Opteron.

Author: Dan Andersson

Date: 00:32:36 07/29/04

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On July 29, 2004 at 03:20:44, Andreas Guettinger wrote:

>If you only want to play chess with your new box, I would buy the Dual Opteron.
>For Crafty I remember a single Opteron 2.2Ghz is about 50% faster than a single
>G5 2Ghz for chess.
>
>If you want to do any other things with your new box (i.e. programming), buy the
>G5.
>
 Is it the development environment that make you prefer the G5 (IDE, API,
libraries ...)? I wonder mainly because the time to compile benchmarks I have
seen of the Opteron are impressive.

MvH Dan Andersson

>regards
>Andy



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