AMD's Opteron 250 vs. Intel's Xeon 3.6 GHz in a Workstation Duel of the Elite
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Intel Processors (Socket 604) | |
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200 MHz FSB (Dual DDR2-400) | Nocona 3.6 GHz (3600 MHz 12-16/1024 kB) |
133 MHz FSB (Dual DDR266) | Xeon 3.20 GHz (3200 MHz 12-8/512/2048 kB)Xeon 3.06 GHz (3066 MHz 12-8/512/2048 kB) |
AMD Processors (Socket 940) | |
200 MHz FSB (DUAL DDR400) | Opteron 250 (2400 MHz 128/1024 kB) |
Intel Processors (Socket 775) | |
200 MHz FSB (Dual DDR2-533) | Pentium 4 3.6 GHz (3600 MHz 12-16/1024 kB) |
Memory | |
AMD Opteron(Socket 940) | 4x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz)Corsair CMX512RE-3200LL XMS3200Rv1.1Timings : CL 2.0-3-2-6-11-16Voltage : 2.5 V |
Intel Xeon(Socket 604) | 4x 512 MB - DDR400 (200 MHz)Corsair CMX512-3200LL XMS3205v1.2Timings : CL 2.0-2-2-5Voltage : 2.5 V |
Intel Nocona(Socket 604) | 4x 512 MB - DDR2-400 (200 MHz)Infineon HYS72T64000GR-5-ATimings : CL 3.0-3-3-11Voltage : 1.8 V |
Intel Prescott(Socket 775) | 4x Infineon DDR2-533 (266 MHz)HY64T64000GU-3.7-ATimings : CL 3.0-3-3-12Voltage : 1.8 V |
Motherboard | |
Intel Xeon Platform(Socket 604) | MSI Master-LS2 (MS-9121), Rev. 1Intel E7505 ChipsetBIOS : V1.2B4 (01/05/04)Integrated Broadcom 5721 GbE single port with ASF 2.0 |
AMD Opteron Platform(Soket 940) | Tyan Thunder K8W (S2885ANRF), Rev. 1.01AMD 8151BIOS : V2.02 (05/14/04)Broadcom BCM5703CKHB PCI-X GB LAN |
Intel Nocona Platform(Socket 604) | Super Micro X6DA8-G2, Rev. 1.1Intel E7525Bios :Intel FW82546 GB PCIe GB LANAsus NCCH-DL, Rev. 1.02Intel 875EBios : 1001 (06/21/2004)Intel |
Intel P4 Platform(Socket 775) | Gigabyte GA-K8ANXP-D, Rev. 1.0Intel 925X ChipsetBIOS : F2 (06/07/2004)Marvell Yukon 88E8053 Gigabit (PCI-E) |
Common Hardware | |
Graphics Cards | Nvidia/PNY Quadro FX3000 AGPGPU : NV35GL (400 MHz)Memory : 256 MB DDR (425 MHz)Nvidia/PNY Quadro FX3400 PCIEGPU : NV45GL (350 MHz)Memory : 256 MB G-DDR3 (450 MHz) |
Sound Card | Terratec Aureon 7.1 Space96.00 kHz sample rate |
Hard Drive (AMD System) | Promise FastTrak S150 TX2plus (Bios : 1.00.0.37)2x SATA Maxtor 6Y080M013530B (RAID 0)80 GB / 8 MB Cache / 7200 rpm |
Hard Drive (Intel System) | Intel FW82801ER ICH6FR2x SATA Maxtor 7B250S00 (RAID 0)250 GB / 16 MB Cache / 7200 rpm |
DVD/CD-ROM | MSI MS-8216D 16x DVD |
Software | |
AMD ChipsetA8111 and A8131 | X 2 1 0 1 Driver PackAGP 8.1.9EIDE 8.2.2SMBus 2.0System Management 1.8.1High-Precision Event Timer 1.0.0IOAPIC 1.8.0 |
Intel Chipset | Chipset Installation Utility 6.0.1.1002 |
Nvidia Graphics (AGP and PCIE) | Detonator 61.76 |
DirectX | Version : 9.0c |
OS | Windows XP Professional 5.10.2600, Service Pack 2 |
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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.Reply