Author: Ernest Bonnem
Date: 11:56:08 10/24/04
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...the AMD Athlon 64 3400+ , the one with 512K level 2 cache, which is 2.4GHz. It costs between 200 and 300 $ or Euros ! On October 23, 2004 at 16:43:25, Michel Langeveld wrote: >I would like to buy a new PC. A difficult choice because there are so many >processors out at the moment. I also don't know for sure if I have to buy a >faster dual PC or with the same money a bit stronger single cpu-PC: > >The Intel (P4, Xeon, Celeron, etc) loose against all AMD's at the moment with >Computer Chess. > >The fastest AMD cpu's available at the moment are: >* AMD Athlon 64 FX-55 (S939, 2,6GHz, 1MB, Boxed) >* AMD Opteron 250 (S940, 2,4GHz, 1MB, Boxed) >* AMD Athlon 64 4000+ (S939, 2,4 GHz, 1MB, Boxed) >* AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (S-A, 2,20GHz, 512KB, 400MHz FSB, Boxed) >* AMD Athlon MP 2800+ (S-A, 2,13GHz, 512KB, 266MHz FSB, Boxed) >* AMD Duron 1800 (S-A, 1,80GHz, 64KB, 266MHz FSB) >* AMD Sempron 3100+ (S754, 1,8GHz, 256KB, 333MHz FSB, Boxed) > >Prices vary a lot. The prices of the FX-55, Opteron 250, Athlon 64 4000+ are >quiet absurd. > >If I take only cpu's <= E 300 then I come to: >* AMD Opteron 146 (S940, 2,0GHz, 1MB, Boxed) € 303,- >* AMD Athlon 64 3500+ (S939, 2,2GHz, 512KB, Boxed) € 287,95 >* AMD Athlon MP 2800+ (S-A, 2,13GHz, 512KB, 266MHz FSB, Boxed) € 205,- >* AMD Athlon XP 3200+ (S-A, 2,20GHz, 512KB, 400MHz FSB, Boxed) € 202,- >* AMD Duron 1800 (S-A, 1,80GHz, 64KB, 266MHz FSB) € 47,- >* AMD Sempron 3100+ (S754, 1,8GHz, 256KB, 333MHz FSB, Boxed) € 127,- > >If I look in Spec CPU 2000(CINT 2000) >[http://www.spec.org/cpu2000/results/cpu2000.html] what are the results of these >cpu's then I find that almost none of these are in spec int 2000 :-). Only the >opteron 146 is given with a score of: > >73.0 = AMD Opteron (TM) 146 > >My current cpu is: > >237 = Pentium III 800Mhz > >So this cpu is 3,25 times faster. > >Question 1) Does some knows what the other cpu's are about worth? >Question 2) Why are they not included in spec int 2000 anymore? > >The fastest published Spec Int 2000 result is: > >45.6 = AMD Opteron (TM) 150 (2.4Ghz) > - os: SuSE Linux 8.0 SLES 64 bit (SP3) > - compiler: SuSE optional gcc 3.3 compiler (20030312) (from SLES8 SP3) > >On windows 2003 this processor makes (I took the Opteron 250 here ... but it >doesn't matter a lot): > >58.6 - AMD Opteron (TM) 250 (2.4Ghz) > - Microsoft Windows Server 2003 > - Intel C++ 8.0 build 20031229Z > >Question 3) Why is there such a big difference between Windows 2003 and Linux? > Does the compiler / os is not fully 64bit? > >On this Windows XP the FX-55 makes: > >53.8 = AMD Athlon (TM) 64 FX-55(2.6 Ghz) > >Question 4) Wouldn't the FX-55 ran much faster if it was running on Linux (suse >too) ? Wouldn't this generate the best crafty single cpu benchmark ever? > >Michel
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