[K12OSN] Just about ready to make a purchase

[James P. Kinney III]

On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 11:03 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> 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.

Mid June 2006.
> 
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>    Les Mikesell
>     les at futuresource.com
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James P. Kinney III          
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