Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 08:02:21 08/15/05
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On August 15, 2005 at 10:39:18, Mathieu Pagé wrote: >On August 15, 2005 at 10:32:51, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On August 15, 2005 at 10:11:22, Mathieu Pagé wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I'm planning to buy an AMD Athlon 64 3400+. I never own an AMD computer nor a 64 >>>bits CPU. >>> >>>I'd like to know to wich Pentium IV clock this Athlon will compare regarding >>>chess programs. >>> >>>Mathieu Pagé >> >> >>Here is actual comparison, ignoring the 3400+ crap. >> >>A 2.2ghz opteron is significantly more than twice as fast as a single xeon >>2.8ghz, from comparisons I have done many times since I am running on a 2.2ghz >>opteron and have the xeon handy to compare with. >> >>I don't know what the clock speed is for the 3400+ stuff however... > >Hi Dr. Hyatt, > >This Athlon 64 is clocked at 2.4Ghz. > >However it's an "Athlon 64". Is not the Opteron a different CPU ? > >Thanks for the reply and good luck for the current tournament. > >Mathieu Pagé I believe the only difference is that the chip you are looking at can not be used in a dual processor or better. That is, it is a single-cpu only and can't be used in a dual or quad MB. I assume the cache doesn't have the NUMA cache coherency stuff which makes multiple cpus impossible to use.
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