Originally posted by: porkster
"The AMD X2 is good for Dhrystone calcs which makes it good for string work, but yet again it's already been shown on THG that these chips are poor multitaskers, for say server work."
The THG test should be taken like a grain of salt look at real performance tests!
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content...?id=opteron275&page=10&cookie%5Ftest=1
"Keep in mind, server admins ? not only are the Opterons handling a much greater amount of requests per second compared to the Xeons, but the Opterons also do so with far less power consumed and heat created. As of right now, the dual-core Opteron is an unbeatable chip for an x86 server environment. "
"The AMD X2 is good for Dhrystone calcs which makes it good for string work, but yet again it's already been shown on THG that these chips are poor multitaskers, for say server work."
The THG test should be taken like a grain of salt look at real performance tests!
http://www.gamepc.com/labs/view_content...?id=opteron275&page=10&cookie%5Ftest=1
"Keep in mind, server admins ? not only are the Opterons handling a much greater amount of requests per second compared to the Xeons, but the Opterons also do so with far less power consumed and heat created. As of right now, the dual-core Opteron is an unbeatable chip for an x86 server environment. "