On Thursday 04 March 2004 10:22 pm, Örn Hansen wrote:
fredag 05 mars 2004 03:36 skrev BandiPat:
Steven, If you are wanting better performance, actually doing two things at once, then go for a dual cpu motherboard. If you are just wanting speedups, then go for the Opteron/Athlon64 cpu. Hyperthreading was just another gimmick Intel tried to use for an already bad cpu, the Pentium IV.
Which brings me to the question, of how does Athlon64 perform. Is it worth upgrading to it, there are numerous different reports out there. =============
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. I have not experienced the chip myself, but have spoken to a couple people that have and they seemed pleased. I believe there are a couple of folks on this list that have it. Lee -- --- KMail v1.6 --- SuSE Linux Pro v9.0 --- Registered Linux User #225206 On any other day, that might seem strange...