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Originally posted by HEADRAT
But who cares about that, if we can get screaming 32 bit performace that looks possible from what I've seen from the Opteron scores then AMD will have themselves a winner.
I'd like to see more head to head benchmarks, obviously early adopters always pay through the nose and it appears Opteron is no excepetion. If AMD can ensure that they keep the price a the Opteron competitive with the Xeon then great.
I see what you're saying, but the point is - lots of people care. screaming 32bit performance has limitations, the biggest being the memory address space, even with M$ Windows' ability to virtually allocate additional address space to fool applications that they've access to additional resources. This is just like utilizing Windows virtual memory/pagefile. The performance hit is huge.