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castle   04-22-2003 at 07:28:59 PM

Opteron with 2 GB of memory, and two Ultra 320 SCSI hard drives.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20 [...] on-10.html

Xeon with 512M memory, one UDMA 100 hard drive.
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20 [...] on-16.html

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xxsk8er101xx   04-22-2003 at 07:30:30 PM
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that would be a tad bit unfair.

Life is irrelivent and irrational.

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sabbath1   04-22-2003 at 07:42:21 PM
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watch the review over at aceshardware.com

The Opteron wins 18-11 in benchmarks, when both systems the Opteron 1.8 and the Xeon 2.8 comes with 2 gb memory. So granted, there is a difference, but the extra 1.5 gb still doesn't win the victory or even creates a par form the Xeon.

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castle   04-22-2003 at 07:48:57 PM
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Why the hell they cannot configure two systems in the same way?
I know what you are trying to say, however, extropolating data is simply not legit for benchmark.

<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by castle on 04/22/03 01:51 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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reever2   04-22-2003 at 07:50:05 PM
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And with that much memory and looking at the tests at aces hardware, many of the tests do not exceed the amount of total memory so nothing is being brought to the hd for lack of memory

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castle   04-22-2003 at 07:53:32 PM
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What I was trying to say is Tom's review is not fair. Look how many people immediately start to back AMD.

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sabbath1   04-22-2003 at 08:57:41 PM
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Don't ask me why they chose to use only 512 mb with the Xeon. Indeed that makes for some unfair comparison.

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why   04-22-2003 at 09:07:16 PM
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I do not see the backing AMD. Several agree with you. No one disagrees. How is that backing AMD. One person simply pointed out that testing was fairly done elsewhere and it did not really alter the results.

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juin   04-22-2003 at 09:07:53 PM
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No benchmark for HPC have the configuration never
<P ID="edit"><FONT SIZE=-1><EM>Edited by juin on 04/22/03 03:16 PM.</EM></FONT></P>

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reever2   04-22-2003 at 09:28:08 PM
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Huh? I think you have the wrong thread there.

And how did tom render those scenes at resolutions like 1280x1024 when he said himself that the trident chip was only capable of 640x480

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bikeman   04-22-2003 at 10:51:55 PM
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You can render to a file, you know ...

<i>Then again, that's just my opinion</i>

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ra5555   04-23-2003 at 06:56:17 AM
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Toms hardware, please reply to this Post...

Answer the question, why was the test unfairly done?

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MeTaLrOcKeR   04-23-2003 at 06:56:53 AM
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And with a Video Chip such as that on the Opteron system, makes video rendering oh so nice.......not even AGP i bet.....theres no supposed to be anyways......these CPUS r for servers.....wait till Athlon 64 is out for the real picture...

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amebapk   04-23-2003 at 07:56:17 PM
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AMD 2x 1.8ghz VS. Intel 2x 3.06ghz = gayest comparison EVER!
http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/index.html

:)

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