Actually, in power tests we've found the new AMD chips are consuming quite a bit less power than the woodcrests.
0.6A at full load as opposed to 1A. Unfortunately they just aren't fast enough.
Well, the Woodcrest is spanking the opterons at present, I just got done benchmarking the new AMD chip vs the Intel woodcrest for PRMAN and Shake rendering and the AM2 is between 20% slower and 50% slower for what we want to do and the Opteron 280's are about as fast (core for core) as our aging 2.8GHz Xeons
To add to that, our reliability record for AMD systems is mindblowingly shocking. Having purchased 65 Dual 280 Opterons, we've had problems with ~60% of them.
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McCain isn't the anti-christ, Palin is.
Thats not off topic, thats kth substitution encryption!
Some references/explanations would be nice. How does Crossfire distribute load far more effectively than SLI for example.
please? He/she makes some great points.
Haha, brilliant!
GauteL has some excellent points.
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Don't they know that "pulling out" isn't a valid form of contraception?
Actually, in power tests we've found the new AMD chips are consuming quite a bit less power than the woodcrests. 0.6A at full load as opposed to 1A. Unfortunately they just aren't fast enough.
Well, the Woodcrest is spanking the opterons at present, I just got done benchmarking the new AMD chip vs the Intel woodcrest for PRMAN and Shake rendering and the AM2 is between 20% slower and 50% slower for what we want to do and the Opteron 280's are about as fast (core for core) as our aging 2.8GHz Xeons
To add to that, our reliability record for AMD systems is mindblowingly shocking. Having purchased 65 Dual 280 Opterons, we've had problems with ~60% of them.