Date: Fri, 27 Jan 2006 23:03:10 +0100 From: <lars.tunkrans@bredband.net> To: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net>,<freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Re: dual vs single core opteron 100's Message-ID: <20060127220310.JWHG2008.mxfep02.bredband.com@mxfep02>
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> > From: Ken Gunderson <kgunders@teamcool.net> > > Besides the different CPUID, Athlon64 X2 (with 2x1MB Cache) and Dual-Core > > Opteron 1xx are exactly the same. NO. > > Are you sure about this? For example, Opteron 1xx use ECC RAM but I'm > not sure if the Athlons do. Correct, Opteron uses socket 940 to be able to use registred ECC Ram. Whilst modern Athlon 64 uses socket 939 to cut the cost of the motherboard components and to use unregistred non-ECC RAM. Its actually becomming difficult now to find new Consumer PC's with Intel P4 CPUS. So I Guess that the Socket 939 is paying off nicely for AMD. The other difference is that Athlon 64 can be overclocked. You dont want to live on the edge in a server , you want it to be reliable. So Opterons have fixed frequency. //Lars
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