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AMD Athlon 64 Performance Preview

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the finger-burning-good dept.

k-hell writes "It seems like X-bit Labs have gotten their hands on an 'engineering sample of the AMD Athlon 64 2800+ processor'. Damage at Tech Report is writing that 'This is really fun, but I am a little concerned about their memory latency numbers.'"

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  1. best processor/price? by SHEENmaster · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Does the high cache size of Sparc processors outweigh their slower clockspeeds? Do the instruction sets?

    I'll soon be getting a server that does involved calculations for for members of Math Addicts Anonymous. These will involve things like prime factorizations of insanely large numbers and calculating pi to more digits than anyone could ever care about. Assuming a budget of $500(the server will have other duties) for the motherboard/ram/processor, what would be the best architecture for the job?

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