AMD Athlon-64 vs. Opteron

[Harry]

On Thu, 2004-10-28 at 21:20, Kurt Wall wrote:
> 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. :-\
> 

I have an advantage, always being behind the curve. It doesn't hurt when
new/faster/better/prettier comes along.  (Not to mention that I am
cheap).

Harry G