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

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 03:53:50 11/03/05

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On November 02, 2005 at 18:03:01, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On November 02, 2005 at 16:47:57, Ray Banks wrote:
>
>>On November 02, 2005 at 16:36:23, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:
>>>You can't put Athlon X2's in SMP configuration, exactly because of the missing
>>>links.
>>>
>>>--
>>>GCP
>>
>>But you can have two dual-core Opterons !!  = 4 processor equivalents
>
>The original poster already pointed that out. But he wanted to use X2's, I
>presume because they are cheaper than Opterons :-P
>
>--
>GCP

exactly and besides they cost almost only half the price of the corresponding
Opteron. Too bad that you can't use them in a Dual-configuration (4 cores
total).

Is there any difference (besides cache) between the Dual-Core-Opterons and X2 in
single configuration relevant for parallel search?

Joachim



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