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The Inquirer has posted a special hardware roundup featuring some preliminary benchmarks from an Opteron 866. Dual-Core anyone?

When compared to an Opteron 248, the 866 was a winner in all tests - PC Mark, Aqaumark, 3Dmark 03, Super Pi, Content Creation and Business Winstone and Sandra. The differenes varied from 1% to more than 100% in Sandra, showing that some benchmarks were not ready for dual core let alone dual processors. More interestingly, even a dual Opteron 248 were not able to beat a single Opteron 866. AMD has done a fantastic job here.

You can review the benchmarks over here.

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scheme SMP user Posts: 259 Joined: 2002-01-18

#35729 Posted on: 04/14/2005 01:00 AM In a somewhat related news, AMD seems to have won a trade show award for best cpu maker. The kicker is that the trade show was sponsored by intel and an intel rep was handing out the award. Check out the inq's link here.

Dtakias Lost in I.T. Posts: 377 Joined: 2002-03-13

#35730 Posted on: 04/14/2005 01:06 AM omg:eek: :eek: :eek: now that is a kick ass workstation... |dtakias.com|eBay|Heat| IBM Thinkpad T43 2668 moded: 1GB,100GB 7k100,IBM II a/b/g,BT,DL DVD Burner,9cell + Toshiba Satellite Pro U200 (T7200, 1GB, 3945a/b/g, DL DVD Burner)

Ekke Lina Posts: 113 Joined: 2002-04-13

#35731 Posted on: 04/14/2005 02:52 AM hmmm this is very good news that dualcore performans better then expected! I will start saving money asap!

eFrisky Euro-liberal Posts: 582 Joined: 2002-01-20

#35732 Posted on: 04/14/2005 04:12 AM Who want to call Dell and ask if they're now going to use the "best CPU manufacturer", or go with a second rate manufacturer such as Intel hehehe Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant

terminalrecluse is home now Posts: 3802 Joined: 2004-08-07

#35733 Posted on: 04/14/2005 07:25 AM My next upgrade will be a S939 dualcore AMD Athlon 64...Finally a dually upgrade and all I will have to do is buy a s939 board and a cpu! 121 total Ghz, 304GB in total memory... Arch Linux - stable : 3930k @ 4.4Ghz, 64GB DDR3, 120GB Samsung 840, HX850 DAS - Norco 4020 - 20x Seagate 3TB, 1KW PSU FBSD 10 ZFS server - SM Chassis, SM X8DTE, 2x L5520 Xeons, 48GB Reg DDR3 ULP, IBM 5015 w/ 512MB DDR2 cache, RAID-50 - 42TB storage Dell C6100 - 4 nodes, 2 1.1KW psu's, 2x L5520s, 6x e5530s, 192GB reg DDR3 (48GB each), F@H, etc

Mr Bill two by two, hands of blue Posts: 2946 Joined: 2002-02-16

#35734 Posted on: 04/14/2005 08:02 AM The tests were done on a Tyan Thunder K8WE S2895 dual opteron board with a nForce Pro 220 chipset. Nice to know you may not need a new motherboard to run either duallie singlecore or dualcores. My SMP rig [URL="http://personal.palouse.net/billshan/ghost.htm#A_Merlin"]Merlin[/URL]

duraid SMP Qualified Posts: 387 Joined: 2002-03-31

#35735 Posted on: 04/14/2005 11:14 AM Originally posted by Ekke hmmm this is very good news that dualcore performans better then expected! I gotta ask... what _did_ you expect??!

Paladyyn mmmmmMaya Posts: 119 Joined: 2002-05-05

#35736 Posted on: 04/15/2005 01:14 AM I would have preferred more benchmarks that actually take advantage of multiple CPUs/cores. Rendering in Max/Maya for example... I guess beggars can't be choosers.

jamesavery22 Registered User Posts: 1567 Joined: 2002-08-07

#35737 Posted on: 04/15/2005 01:43 AM I love how I accidently put that link into babelfish as Korean and it translated almost every other phrase to "national disgrace." I thought the 1 x 866 compared to 2 x 248s was kool. Just wonder how much the lowest speed dual core opteron will be =\ My Heatware

rmn oh my, it's huge! Posts: 6013 Joined: 2002-01-26

#35738 Posted on: 04/15/2005 02:09 AM Originally posted by jamesavery22 I love how I accidently put that link into babelfish as Korean and it translated almost every other phrase to "national disgrace." Person type national disgrace, Dae On Go under Jung, national disgrace and Dual Core shoe polish? ! ? HKEPC department? AMD Dual Core Opteron, watch? ? Answer $$ In other words, for the type of person who thinks it would be a national disgrace to put the CPU die under [Carl Gustav?] Jung, using shoe polish [as the thermal compound], the HKEPC department has a dual-core Opteron watch. Only problem: it's very expensive. RMN ~~~

jamesavery22 Registered User Posts: 1567 Joined: 2002-08-07

#35739 Posted on: 04/15/2005 03:08 AM Originally posted by rmn In other words, for the type of person who thinks it would be a national disgrace to put the CPU die under [Carl Gustav?] Jung, using shoe polish [as the thermal compound], the HKEPC department has a dual-core Opteron watch. Only problem: it's very expensive. RMN ~~~ WOW got a handfull of evil looks from co-workers for laughing too hard My Heatware

ssjchris_29 Wardicus Posts: 222 Joined: 2003-12-29

#35740 Posted on: 04/15/2005 04:21 AM holy crap. those are some high numbers.... anyone know if those were special versions of those benchmarks or not? right now i want 2x of those dual cores... but like 868 or 870 models :-p what a dream! Abit AN8-V, Opteron 175 @ 2.53ghz, Big Typhoon VX + AS5 Ceramique, 4x 512MB PC3200 (@230Mhz), 80GB, 250GB, DVD-ROM

duraid SMP Qualified Posts: 387 Joined: 2002-03-31

#35741 Posted on: 04/17/2005 04:56 AM Originally posted by scheme In a somewhat related news, AMD seems to have won a trade show award for best cpu maker. The kicker is that the trade show was sponsored by intel and an intel rep was handing out the award. Check out the inq's link here. Yeah but what was the award? Some dumb trophy right? Check _this_ one out: IBM awarding an eserver box to some SGI guys the story funny how the inquirer never picks up stuff like this

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