Philipp Thomas wrote:
BandiPat <penguin0601@earthlink.net> [Thu, 4 Mar 2004 23:07:54 -0500]:
The Athlon64 is the lower cost version of the Opteron cpu. I don't remember what it is missing that the Opteron has, maybe someone that has done a bit more research can volunteer that information.
It's missing the second RAM channel and most of all it's missing two Hypertransport channels so it can't be used to build multiprocessor systems, not even dual ones.
Philipp
I'm sure I've seen dual Athlon 64 mobo's on sale and a friend and I have discussed watching the price drops on them, it could be they didn't make a distinction between Athlon64 and Opteron, caveat emptor perhaps? -- i.e you could buy one of those boards and 2 Athlon 64 CPU's and discover you have a spare CPU you can't use. My earlier mail got bounced ..... I'm expecting delivery of an Acer Aspire 1501LCe laptop tomorrow, Athlon64 3000+, 512M DDR333, 10/100/1000 Nic, CD RW/DVD etc. and I shall install gentoo 64-bit on the 40G drive and SuSE 64-bit on the spare 20G for comparison. All the comparisons I've seen so far have been between 32-bit operating systems on P4 vs Athlon64, but I'm interested only in 64-bit performance. Regards Sid. -- Sid Boyce .... Hamradio G3VBV and keen Flyer Linux Only Shop.