but you know the normal way of SMP (or the old way) when you plugged 2 seperate processors in, was this no good then? lol
I moved from intel (early p4 days) to AMD (late socket a days) and used a few x2's but i have since gone back to intel using dual core p4's as they are better at graphics (ie quicker) than AMD, but i might be tempted back.
I too tried, and then ditched, AMD. They build fast chips for the money, but Intel build more robust stuff. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgOmMAasqto was one reason I left. Poor warranty support was another. The SIS/VIA capture card mess was the last straw. (not really AMDs fault, but you cant get a i965 AMD chipset) Intel costs more, but for a good reason. AMD only for cheap and non mission critical stuff.
Lee Sharp wrote:AMD only for cheap and non mission critical stuff.
funny, i did some functionality/performance testing in some bank in US for last couple of weeks and when the results were not the ones i expected, infrastructure guys said: "ok, let's move you to the amd blade rack, that's much faster than intel blade rack you are on now and in production we have amds too". besides, tomshardware video is old news as far as i am concerned. and app i was testing is not just mission critical, it is a backbone of one line of business
if common sense is so uncommon, why is it called common then?
I know the video is old. It is just that AMD didn't think about it until it hit the press, and Intel did. I have been burned too many times. I want to know it will work tomorrow, and 4 years from now, in a hot closet with no air flow.
Thats a cheap chip though... Not an Opteron. Of course its going to burn up without a sink, all it has is substrait and no other way to disipate heat. Duh
I like to the the same test performed witha Opteron.
