My next motherboard

Hello nononsense,

The use of Quantum Mechanics was not meant to be taken literally. It was a metaphor.

nitro

 

OK nitro, I know you meant it that way!

Good luck with your project. Keep telling us about it.

nononsense

 

Prophet,

Once again, thanks for the very useful links.

Please try again on the PM.

nitro

 

No matter what you choose you should stick with Opteron and AMD
" internal HP benchmarks compariing their 3.2GHz Xeon server to their new Opteron Proliant servers. 1P and 2P configurations were shown, and even the 1P Opteron beat the 2P Xeon in Webbench.

For dual processor configurations, the ProLiant DL145 server with
the ProLiant DL140 server using 3.2GHz Intel Xeon processors
processor configurations, the ProLiant DL145 with 2.2GHz outperformed
using 3.2GHz Intel Xeon processors by an average of 44%.

Keep in mind that this is 32 bit here. Now with 64 bit AMD has more of an advantage which they will lose when Intel goes 64 bit, but they still retain the architectural advantage. "


http://h18004.www1.hp.com/products/servers/benchmarks/dl145-webbench.pdf

 

Intel has aleady "gone" 64-bit. It's called Itanium-2.

http://www.intel.com/products/serve...x.htm?iid=ipp_browse+featureprocess_itanium2&

The neat thing is, the 64-bit Opterons will run existing 32-bit apps natively, whereas the Itanum2 CPU's "simulate" 32 bits apps, and it is MUCH slower than the Opteron on 32-bit code. Not sure what the benchmarks are when they are going head to head on 64-bits...

I agree though, that performance/$, AMD has hit the jackpot, and they will only get better and better.

nitro

 

That's not my writing, it was from a hardware website guy who assumes you know the difference between mainstream Xeon's and Itaniums(X-86 instructions maybe, no that would be too obvious, but this is Elite) . That's why the comparison with Opterons and Xeon's.

 

anandtech did some testing - opertron 1mb cache versus xeons with 2mb and 4mb cache - in both 2 way and 4 way configurations.

http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.html?i=1982&p=6

 

Very interesting.

Thanks for the link.

nitro

 

I got work from Tyan that they will be coming out with a barebones system that includes this MB for about $3000 (I am hopeful less.) That means that after you add four Opterons, the HDs, and the memory, you will be at about $8,000.

Not bad for a state of the art quad system.

nitro

 

The price of the motherboard on it's own is very attractive for a quad compared to a quad xeon board:

http://www.alvio.com/pmoreinfo.asp?iid=2992

Also tyan now have the full spec of the board on their site now:

http://www.tyan.com/products/html/thunderk8qs.html