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Subject: Re: AMD Opteron 275 2.20 GHz

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 14:52:04 08/23/05

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On August 23, 2005 at 17:04:15, Joost Buijs wrote:

>Hi,
>
>About 6 weeks ago I build a dual Opteron 270 box. I used the 270 because the 275
>is a little bit to expensive to my taste. Actually the 270's run fine on 2200
>MHz. as well.
>
>Al 'deep' programs support 4 processors, I tried Shredder, Fritz and Junior.
>Only I'm not sure if the commercial programs scale very well on a multi
>processor box.
>
>I have the impression that Shredder hardly improves on a quad processor compared
>to a dual processor box. NPS almost doubles ofcause, but the actual speed-up
>seems to be rather small. I have to do some more tests, and try more and
>different positions before I can say anything about this with certainty.

ps how are you measuring speed up ?

and what operating system are you using ?

Tom

Tom




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