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If any of you are thinking about building a desktop system that will be handling some workstations applications you might wanna check this review out. I've been really looking into this recently for a friend of mine who is currently a gamer but in the future will be working with workstation/programing/media development apps.
It's reviewing the recently launched AMD Opteron 150/250. Yes, there are game benchmarks at the end.
I have been interesting in building a dual CPU system for awhile now. In the past I was looking to the Athlon MP systems but I didn't feel that they had enough bandwidth. Since the AMD Opteron CPUs have come out, a workstation/gaming machine has been possible.
If you check out the memory bandwidth graph, all the other systems stay the same vs higher clocked version of the same core but the Opteron increases memory bandwidth as the core clock increases (ondie memory controller).
I thought this was a very nice review. If you are looking for FX results, just look at the Opteron 150 for the FX53 and 146 for FX51. Dual AMD chips obviously rain over P4 w/HT and even dual Xeon in Video Encoding. Xvid also loves working on any AMD system (In other reviews).
Think I might pick up myself a Opteron 244 SMP system after prices drop from an already low $300 each @ newegg.
E.G.The 3ghz Xeons with 1MB L3 Cache from the review cost $700 each. Opteron 246's cost $460 (146's are $300) while Xeon 3.2ghz 1MB L3 cache are $850 apeace.
Wouldn't you like to pay for a Xeon?
It's reviewing the recently launched AMD Opteron 150/250. Yes, there are game benchmarks at the end.
I have been interesting in building a dual CPU system for awhile now. In the past I was looking to the Athlon MP systems but I didn't feel that they had enough bandwidth. Since the AMD Opteron CPUs have come out, a workstation/gaming machine has been possible.
If you check out the memory bandwidth graph, all the other systems stay the same vs higher clocked version of the same core but the Opteron increases memory bandwidth as the core clock increases (ondie memory controller).
I thought this was a very nice review. If you are looking for FX results, just look at the Opteron 150 for the FX53 and 146 for FX51. Dual AMD chips obviously rain over P4 w/HT and even dual Xeon in Video Encoding. Xvid also loves working on any AMD system (In other reviews).
Think I might pick up myself a Opteron 244 SMP system after prices drop from an already low $300 each @ newegg.
E.G.The 3ghz Xeons with 1MB L3 Cache from the review cost $700 each. Opteron 246's cost $460 (146's are $300) while Xeon 3.2ghz 1MB L3 cache are $850 apeace.
Wouldn't you like to pay for a Xeon?
