AMD's Opteron 250 vs. Intel's Xeon 3.6 GHz in a Workstation Duel of the Elite

HyperThreading As In The Past

The new Xeon also still has Hyper Threading technology, whereby WindowsXP Professional or Windows Server recognizes four virtual processors.

In addition, with regard to the FSB clockspeed, Intel attaches great importance to the fact that the Hyper Threading introduced two years ago also profits from it: the bandwidth of the data bus of every virtual HT-CPU now amounts to 1.6 GB/s, instead of 1.05 GB/s.

An Overview Of Models

Overview of the present Intel Xeon Models with Nocona Core

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Patrick Schmid
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Patrick Schmid was the editor-in-chief for Tom's Hardware from 2005 to 2006. He wrote numerous articles on a wide range of hardware topics, including storage, CPUs, and system builds.

  • bgd73
    hey thanks for this. There is errors in the test, especially in memory speed of xeons, in fact, it is ridiculous. I am going for older 7525 chipset in CEB motherboard...these machines are just getting started. I be sure to go for HT. thanks.
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