Re: Dragonfly and Hyperthreading....

[David Xu <davidxu@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
> EM1897@xxxxxxx wrote:
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> > what today's CPUS deliver anyway. I've never seen any compelling evidence
> > that AMD-based machines are faster in practice.  Right now I'm testing 
> > a 3.4/800Ghz P4 system with 1K cache and PCIExpress and its slower 
> > than a 3.06/533 Xeon with 512K cache and PCI-X. The faster CPU is 
> > faster in raw 
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> Have you googled already for tyan K8WE? Dual Opteron 200 series, dual 
> PCI-express ready for SLI and yes both with full 16 lanes when in SLI 
> opposed to shared 16 lanes as other current bords have.
> The bord will go out for about 600EUR (all features), not even that 
> expensive (still way above my budget).
I just browsed into the topic, but K8WE is fully based on NVIDIA kludge
chipsets, the chipsets company is not open source friendly, I don't
think you will get good support from open source world, based on the
point, Intel is still the best X86 Server platform except its CPU
problem.

David Xu