Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Feb 2004 16:20:33 -0500 | From | Timothy Miller <> | Subject | Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 |
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John Heil wrote: > On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Rogier Wolff wrote: > > >>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:43:54 +0100 >>From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl> >>To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com> >>Cc: John Heil <kerndev@sc-software.com>, >> Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org>, >> Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> >>Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64 >> >>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:32:07AM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote: >> >>>Things may have changed, but when I last built a Linux box (Athlon XP >>>2800+), I was not able to find a motherboard for recent AMD processors >>>with 64bit/66mhz PCI slots. If I'd needed that, I would have had to go >>>with Intel. >> >>Ehmm. We've been trying to get 64/66 slots in our systems a while, and >>the only affordable option I've been able to find are the dual-athlon >>boards (Tyan, Asus). > > > > And so far, I've found Tyan to be the slightly more reliable of the two.
The problem was that the Tyan I found which did 64/66 was a dual processor board (not a problem) that had a maximum FSB of 266mhz (or maybe it was 200?). I would have been stuck with dual Athlon XP 2400+ (or worse), rather than something faster like the 2800+ I have. Well, the dual would be faster if I were running multi-threaded applications, but most of the CPU-intensive stuff I tend to tinker with is single-threaded and also memory-intensive, making the single 2800+ more attractive (I could have gotten the 3000+, but the cost increase wasn't worth the small performance increase).
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