Oh em gee.
Single Channel

It should still be a hard choice if this does price well and OC to 3G and a wee bit above

bullit, try SPECfp_rate_2006 scores then. What?
Cherry picking tests is proven to be the worst way to do benchmarks.

3DMark's CPUmark is quite an accurate representation of what the CPU can do in games. 8 cores are not used fully all the time, but 4 are.

But you need an uber-expensive mobo (currently only Tyan has Opteron server boards, and that LN1 from Asus)

RD790 is the ultimate chip for both Opteron and Phenom (yes, 1st time that a mainstream chipset is used for both consumer and server). Current Barcelona chipsets are on Broadcom.

3DM06 you posted was ran on a L1N with a beta BIOS I think. Weird issues though, single channel mem for example.


Broadcom makes chipsets, besides from wireless chips. They've been supporting AMD for quite some time on the server front, starting 05 IIRC.
And Tyan uses them for the native Barcey boards. (nForce Pro is a joke for servers, you don't put something that hot in servers; it's only for workstations as its name implies)

BTW Asus' new L1A is based on RD790 instead of nF 680a, should be much cooler (RD discrete chipsets are always cooler, and the PCIe lanes are all on one chip. )

Oh, and SPECint_rate is also a throughput test as its name implies.

This post has been edited by X.E.D: Sep 30 2007, 06:41 PM