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

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 09:02:22 11/03/05

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On November 03, 2005 at 06:53:50, Joachim Rang wrote:

>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?

AFAIK there's a difference in the types of RAM that you can use, but to answer
your question: no relevant difference.

--
GCP



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