http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD04MjI=To sum up, small-cache Xeon just got usefully faster, but Opteron still easily holds the lead.
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews...lld19JRD04MjI=To sum up, small-cache Xeon just got usefully faster, but Opteron still easily holds the lead.
:S is it possible to see what it OC's like?? just for giggles of course
*imagines a 2.8 Ghz Opteron....*
While I can't benchmark 2.8GHz dual Opterons, I do run 2.8GHz+ Athlon FX (Opteron by everything else but name), and I do have an article in the works that compares performance from FX-51 (2.2GHz), right up to a mythical FX-59/Opteron 256 (3.0GHz).
Hope that'll be of interest Sorry I can't do it with a pair of processors though.
Rys
MOLLY AND POPPY!
Why cant you?? Your ment to be the uber guy who does magical things...
/me realises the world is crumbling around him!
If Rys cant do it... who can??
Or is it a case of the mobos dont allow it?
None of the Opteron motherboards I know of allow overclocking, and with Registered ECC memory required you're not exactly spoilt for choice with high performance memory anyway. The same is true of Tumwater chipset motherboards so far. However, Asus and Iwill both managed to shoehorn 875 chipsets onto dual Xeon motherboards, so maybe we'll see the same with 925X. Supermicro 7525 boards are definitely not intended to be overclocked, though. This is a shame, because Xeons are just as good as P4s, if not better, for overclocking - the current PCMark04 world leader is an overclocked dual Xeon, incidentally built by the UK's very own Armari.
Even if I could increase FID on the Opterons using the BIOS, I'd need a second VapoChill and I've only got one
For our next dual-CPU box review, I'll endeavour to slap some watercooling on there at the very least, should it be me doing the article. If anything, overclocking someone else's £3000 workstation is a giggle.
Rys
MOLLY AND POPPY!
Interesting article, would be nice to see an overclocked prestonia platform (800 fsb DDR400 etc, put them on equal stepping) vs the new narconia too.
And I think you mean 3DMark 2001, not 2003 as the article suggests.
Last edited by TheDarkRealm; 18-08-2004 at 04:10 PM.
2x 2400@3262 (D1 stepping) Xeons (233*14) (VID pin modded to 1.6v)
ASUS PC-DL Deluxe (v1.04)
Nvidia 6800 ultra
1gb Corsair XMS3200
Any reason why you could not or would not allow the memory to run at 200/800HT 3200GB/sec??
I know them benchmarks would have looked very different....In Opterons favor of course.
And another thing....You could have done one up on AnandTech and run some Linux 64 (FedoraCore3, Suse 9.1, Knoppix64,....), in SMP, and NUMA(Linux)
This Review seemed biased.
I wish Reviewers could put there Bias Aside for the sake of a Real Platform Investigation....I'm getting really sick of seeing the mentality of "Oh Intel is so Great, I don't mind paying another $500 more for 40 more watts of heat, and less performance...blah, blah, blah)
I know I can rely on Tech Report, and Ace's Hardware to put up a real review.
Here's Hoping
Freebrew
The mainboard didn't allow DDR400, simple as that. There's no memory adjust functions in the BIOS.
I could have run 64-bit, if 64-bit was the article focus. It explains that on the first page, did you read it? We don't exist to go "one up" on other sites.
And did you even read the conclusion, or any of the article? The Xeon does NOT come out on top.
Thanks for your pre-determined, biased input.
Rys
MOLLY AND POPPY!
Originally Posted by freebrew
Suggest a few real graphics workstation apps that people who spend £4-5K on a system actually use running any of these Operating Systems. Lightwave? Nope. 3dsmax? Nope. Industrial CAD? Nope. After Effects? Nope. Photoshop? Nope. Video encoding software? Nope. Maybe some scientific simulation, although even here Microsoft's stranglehold on the PC platform is pretty great.
64-bit Linux is almost exclusively for servers, which is not what was being tested in this review.
But, suggest a few real-world Linux 64 applications used by professionals and I'm sure the suggestions will be taken on board for future testing.
It does allow DDR400, you were running Opteron 250 without the proper BIOS.Originally Posted by Rys
The BIOS you had in the board is dated 8th March 2004, before the release of the 248/250 and CG stepping cores. There is 2 sets of newer BIOS which addresses the issues.
Also the AMD-8151 is known to have a slightly weaker AGP implementation.
Curious as to why AMD didn't provide you the Iwill DK8N instead of the DK8X.
Maya, Softimage XSI, Shake, Satori PaintOriginally Posted by Dadmag
+ Big productions houses have proprietary graphic applications that run on linux.
Or are those not good enough for you?
Hey, no need to be mean about it...Originally Posted by satanskji
Unlike you, noone has the ability to forefill everybodys needs, and the VAST majority of readers of these articles WONT have Linux, well at least I believe this to be so...
Just try to be a bit nicer in your first post on the forums.. ohh Welcome
We were talking about 64-bit benchmarking. I'm pretty sure these are all 32-bit Linux implementations, so not Linux 64. I wasn't saying that Linux isn't used in real production houses - just that Linux 64 isn't yet. I don't think any of the apps you mention have 64-bit versions.Originally Posted by satanskji
I refer you to these two system requirement pages:
Maya
Softimage XSI
Last edited by James Morris; 19-08-2004 at 09:02 AM.
Err, try rereading the article. He said that the Nocona is better than previous Xeon's, so yes, it is a worthwhile improvement, but it still doesn't beat the Opteron. Where's the bias?Originally Posted by freebrew
In either case, is it me, or are the first couple of graphs mixed up? It shows the Xeons being faster, but the text below says Opteron wins.
No you weren't, none of the applications you mentioned has a 64 bit version. And none of them will have before Microsoft decides to ship a 64 bit OS.Originally Posted by Dadmag
Both Maya and XSI comes from 64 bit platforms, so it's not unreasonable to think that they will be available for 64 bit Linux before XP 64 ships.
I'm not trying to be mean, just making sure that noone misses any facts.
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