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> Which AMD64 are you considering? the AMD64 3200... 3400 and FX are too expensive, and Opteron seems to be more targeted to the server market. Some of the differences from AMD material. AMD 64: 3.2 GBit/sec memory bandwidth AMD 64FX: 6.4 GBit/sec memory bandwidth Opteron up to 19.2 GB/sec total bandwidth / CPU (using 3 links) 6.4 GBit/sec memory bandwidth Opteron's are usually labeled with a three digit number. The first digit indicates how many CPUs of this type can be used in an SMP system. Opteron 1xx -> single CPU Opteron 2xx -> dual CPU (up to 8 way) interestingly, a 2 GHz Opteron costs about $300, a 2 GHz AMD64 about $270 and an AMD64FX (2.2 GHz) sells for $750. So it looks like the 'FX' is priced very high given that it seems to be very similar to an Opteron 1xx (didn't find a price for a 2.2 Opteron 1xx... maybe they don't exist) -- -------------------------------------------------------------- Johannes Ullrich jullrich at euclidian.com pgp key: http://johannes.homepc.org/PGPKEYS contact: http://johannes.homepc.org/contact.htm -------------------------------------------------------------- "We regret to inform you that we do not enable any of the security functions within the routers that we install." support at covad.net --------------------------------------------------------------
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