Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:53:23 08/25/05
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On August 25, 2005 at 18:00:16, Joshua Shriver wrote: >Thanks for the reply. From your experience, when testing SMP code, is there >really any difference other than speed between a dual or quad? > >This looks like a fun box, but it'll cost $100 for shipping. Might as well go to >a local store and pick up a dual AMD. > >-Josh The general advice is max total mhz with fewest total processors. So I'd much rather have dual 1ghz than quad 500mhz processors, as an example. You can't go wrong with a dual opteron box. A single opteron cpu (single-core even) will just blow that quad xeon away... > >>Almost guaranteed to be false. The 500's that we had used the "slot" type >>processors. Newer processors are back to normal socket-xxx layouts. Also, most >>MBs back then were very restrictive as to what they could do. We have some >>Dells that will run 400-550, but no faster... >> >>> >>>At $199 seems like a decent chess box for doing/testing SMP code. >> >>Not a bad price. Probably cost more than that to get it shipped. The older >>quad boxes usually had redundant power, for example. And could easily reach 100 >>pounds... >> >>My quad xeon 700 box weighed in just over 120 pounds. in fact.. >> >> >>> >>>Any comments? Suggestions? >>> >>>Joshua Shriver
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