Debating 755 or 939

[PMM]

and im not meaning too sound rude but why the hell is ur pi so slow in that system is that a 1mb calculation?

erm... sounds like your confusing Pifast with SuperPi there

It does make him 9th in the world on the Pifast Challenge.

[StormPC]

Well the Opteron are like the FX so that means they are faster than the standard AMD64's.

Now between the Opteron and FX both are same, but opterns could run faster because they have more HT

While the first part of your post is more or less true (if you overlook the fact that there is no such thing as a "standard AMD64", as well as the fact that there are often exceptions), the second point of your post is way off base. Also, ALL Opterons, S754 A64s, S940 FXs, S939 FXs and S939 A64s could be considered "standard AMD64s".

Anyway, you really need to do some reading. Get your arse over to XS.org and read the AMD Stickies...there are many.

[BluThunda]

Calling that a war is a bit silly. The P4 is old tech. Adding a few pins and 64 bit instructions won't fool anybody. Time for Intel to spend some money on engineering instead of spending it on marketing hype to make complete noobs feel good about their Celerons. Sorry "BluThunda" , but the P4 gets it's arse handed to it by just about ANY AMD64 based chip.

yeah thats great m8 but old technology sometimes beats new tech! like a spitfire - it beats a new technology meshersmit.

[StormPC]

yeah thats great m8 but old technology sometimes beats new tech! like a spitfire - it beats a new technology meshersmit.

Yeah, but the life expectancy for an airplane is 20-30 years+, not 7 months as in the computer market. I fail to see how a P4 is a spitfire, etc. Not the best analogy now, is it.

You should really try having a point before you argue it.

[Thorsson]

LOL. Sounds like that "Thunda" is coming from the botty end...

[gallo81]

While the first part of your post is more or less true (if you overlook the fact that there is no such thing as a "standard AMD64", as well as the fact that there are often exceptions), the second point of your post is way off base. Also, ALL Opterons, S754 A64s, S940 FXs, S939 FXs and S939 A64s could be considered "standard AMD64s".

As for my understanding of the standard AMD64's was for AMD 64 Pin-754 and Pin-939, becasue he ask which was faster between standard AMD64's and Opterons.

You should read the first message. page 1.

[StormPC]

But the correct answer is Opterons ARE AMD64s.

[PMM]

Too clear things up

Main Difference between Std A64's inc FX's & Opterons is the fact
Opterons have 3 hypertransport links for the SMP capabilities of going
multi-processor.

And from my understanding as well Opterons actually run a slower memory clock
so actually slower in essance then the FX range but faster than socket 754 64's.

Anyway... here is a url for a site that compares Intel 3.2 with AMD 3.2 & opterons all together....enjoy

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...64fx-athlon64/