[gentoo-amd64] Dual core vs dual chip

[gentoo-amd64] Dual core vs dual chip

[Chris S]

Greetings,

I am curious. Would people recommend a single Athlon X2 compared to Dual 
Opteron at same specs?

ie:

2 x 248 Opterons (2.2GHz, 1Mb, HT1600) in Tyan Thunder K8SRE (nForce 4 
Pro 2200) or
1 x 4400+ Athlon X2 (Dualcore 2.2Ghz, 1Mb, HT2000) in Tyan Tomcat K8E 
(nForce 4)
1 x 175 Opteron (Dualcore 2.2GHz, 1Mb, HT1600) in a single socket 940 
pin mainboard

How would they fair as a server?

Cheers,
Chris
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Dual core vs dual chip

[Matt Randolph]

Chris S wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> I am curious. Would people recommend a single Athlon X2 compared to 
> Dual Opteron at same specs?
>
> ie:
>
> 2 x 248 Opterons (2.2GHz, 1Mb, HT1600) in Tyan Thunder K8SRE (nForce 4 
> Pro 2200) or
> 1 x 4400+ Athlon X2 (Dualcore 2.2Ghz, 1Mb, HT2000) in Tyan Tomcat K8E 
> (nForce 4)
> 1 x 175 Opteron (Dualcore 2.2GHz, 1Mb, HT1600) in a single socket 940 
> pin mainboard
>
> How would they fair as a server?
>
> Cheers,
> Chris


This sounds like a question to post at alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64 or 
similar since it hasn't anything to do with Gentoo. 

That being said, I have a feeling the dual processor machine would blow 
the dual core machines away for heavily multithreaded apps, though the 
Athlon 64 X2 might inch past the others when there was only a single 
thread, but that's only a guess.  It sounds like something to ask Tom's 
Hardware to look into, if they haven't already.  The dual Opteron would 
undoubtedly be the better server.  For one thing, a dual Opteron board 
may well support several times as much RAM as the other boards would.  
The solitary dual core Opteron would be the next best server, followed 
by the Athlon X2.  They should all make better servers than a single 
core/processor x86 machine would.  Generally speaking, these chips are 
priced the way they are for a reason.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Dual core vs dual chip

[Peter Schneider-Kamp]

Chris S wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> I am curious. Would people recommend a single Athlon X2 compared to Dual 
> Opteron at same specs?

I think you need to read the following article at anandtech:

http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2397

Kind regards,
Peter
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Dual core vs dual chip

[Chris S]

Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote:

>
> I think you need to read the following article at anandtech:
>
> http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2397
>
>
thanks guys.
-c
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Dual core vs dual chip

[Dice R. Random]

On 8/12/05, Chris S <taskara@internode.on.net> wrote:
> Peter Schneider-Kamp wrote:
> 
> >
> > I think you need to read the following article at anandtech:
> >
> > http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2397
> >
> >
> thanks guys.
> -c
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> gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
> 
>

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