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Subject: Re: Two Dual-Core Opterons vs. two dual-core Athlon X2?

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 13:36:23 11/02/05

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On November 02, 2005 at 16:18:28, Joachim Rang wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I know there is a difference between Opterons and Ahtlon 64 X2 namely in the
>number of Hypertransport interlinks (or how is it called) but how does that
>effect chess performance? Is it possible to use two X2-CPUs and have a
>four-core-box like with two dual-core-opterons or will the performance be bad
>due to the missing interlink?

You can't put Athlon X2's in SMP configuration, exactly because of the missing
links.

--
GCP



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