[K12OSN] Just about ready to make a purchase

[Les Mikesell]

James P. Kinney III wrote:

> Opterons kick some serious bits when it comes to RAM access. During
> testing prior to the APS installation, I determined that a single chip
> dual core 2.6 GHz Opteron could perform about 30% faster than the same
> setup with a dual core 2.8 GHz Xeon.

How long ago was that?  The intel core2 and quad core cpus have 
leapfrogged AMDs in recent benchmarks.

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   Les Mikesell
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