AMD Athlon-64 vs. Opteron

[Kurt Wall]

On Wed, Oct 27, 2004 at 08:36:59PM -0700, Net Llama! took 47 lines to write:
> On 10/27/2004 07:47 PM, Kurt Wall wrote:
> >
> >Dude! You are such a stud. It still looks like Opteron is the way to go,
> >then. The reason I asked was that I'm currently thinking about building
> >a dual Opteron workstation...
> 
> Opterons are still more of a server class CPU, while the Athlons are 
> more workstation class.  Opterons usually have more cache.  See:
> http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2249
> http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20041019/index.html
> http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030923/index.html

Right. The line is starting to blur, though. With not much effort, I can
stuff a server-class mobo into a workstation-class case and have one
screaming system. For about 20 minutes. That's how long I'll have the
thing running before it gets obsoleted by the next Hot New Hardware. :-\

Kurt
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