PLONK!
Another Intel zealot joins the killfile.
Has the General ever posted *ANYTHING* that was of use to anyone?
Of course not...he still thinks Intel is a good choice.
Bobby
Bobby are you retarded? Where is there a single mention of Intel in this
post? This thread is about the Opteron 1xx, AMD's low end server part, and
whether there are any differences between it and the Athlon 64. Because
you are slow witted I'll explain the obvious to you. The A64 and the 939
pin Opteron 1xx are identical. The statement about the 1xx being made out
of the same die material as the 2xx and 8xx is humorous because all AMD
processors are made on the same processes, either the old 130nm process or
the current 90nm process. It's possible that they tweak the process a
little differently for the Turions to bias it towards lower power at the
expense of performance since those are laptop parts, but historically they
haven't even done that, all they have done in the past is to mark mobile
parts with a lower speed grade then they really were which allowed the
laptop managers to run them at a lower voltage and still achieve the rated
speed. But that was a digression, we were talking about the A64 vs the 939
pin Opteron. In that case there is no difference in process, none, all of
the desktop and server parts come off of the same line. With the old 940
pin Opteron 1xx there was a different memory controller which used
registered DIMMs which allowed you to attach more memory to a single part,
8G is the current practical limit vs 4G on the Athlon 64s. However on the
939 pin Opteron 1xx that difference seems to be gone which means that the
new 1xx is nothing more than a rebranded Athlon 64.
