On Fri, 2006-03-24 at 12:31 -0800, pierre wrote:
Now the project manager said: Take a look at these other Intel motherboards using the Celeron-D (341) (because they're cheaper)
Can't help you on the "real 64bit" issue. But I can say this. There isn't an Intel chip that can stand up to an Opteron (except the Itanium maybe, but you're concerned about price, right?). Flip, I've even seen our 1.6ghz Sempron at the office run circles around a dual 3ghz Xeon server in a good number of tasks. There were only ever two half decent Celeron processors: The Tualatin core (because the Tualatin core Celeron was in essence a Coppermine core Pentium III), and the Dothan core (because, similarly, the Dothan core Celeron is in essence a Banias core Pentium-M - with a few extra goodies). The rest, considering what's available for the money, is a poor chip, no matter which way you look at it. Just my 2 cents. Hans