On Fri, 28 Oct 2005 13:19:51 -0400, Alan Beagley wrote:

>On 10/28/05 12:43 pm Derek W. Keoughan tossed the following ingredients 
>into the ever-growing pot of cybersoup:

MMmmmm... soooooooup.  :-D

[snip]

>> Whatever you do - I'd recommend avoiding Intel architecture... it's a
>> non-starter these days.  It's "already obsolete", and the
>> price/performance ratio is poor... but I don't need to tell you this,
>> really - you're already an AMD owner. :-D
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>I thought I had read somewhere recently -- on Tom's Harware or AnandTech 
>-- that Intel's latest CPUs have overtaken AMD again.

Take a look at this:

http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content.asp?id=paxville&page=1

Mind you, it's dated... it's from October 19th, 2005... things can
change in 9 days. :-D

"Even comparing the Opteron 270 to the Paxville Xeon 2.8 GHz, we still
would opt for an AMD based solution. "  (Page 11)

>But what about Opteron machines? Any known to work or not work with eCS SMP?

I have a dual Opteron 246 machine here running eCS 1.2 SMP that I
demonstrated at Warpstock 2005 in Hershey, PA... on RC5-72, it's
pulling down about 20.1Mkeys/sec, compared to a Pentium 4 3.0 GHz with
HyperThreading that's getting about 4.4Mkeys/sec on the same test... or
roughly 4.5x the speed while running two 2.0GHz cores...  AMD simply
gets more work done per clock cycle, and consumes less power doing it.

That box even booted and ran the eCS demo CD with no hard drives
physically present in the box (hot-swap cages were pulled).  I have
witnesses! :-D

I'm still working on the dual-core Athlon64 4800+... have a few things
to try this weekend, and I'll hopefully have some positive results by
the end of it...

-Derek


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