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Greg S Itanic dead long live King Opteron
The masses have spoken and Intel must ready X86-64 because AMD turned up the heat on them. That segmentation comment makes no sense. You better hope Prescott gets better because Opteron already mops the floor with it, even though there is no volume to speak of with Prescott, and Prescott runs awfully hot. AMD is turning the screws on Intel and Intel Fans are trying to spin it because the reality is they are SOL for the foreseeable future as they scramble to improve the thermals on Prescott. Intel just haing X86-64 capability doesn't mean it's going to outperform Opteron. Case in point, Opteron which is a 64 bit chip mops the floor with Xeon on 32 bit applications. You think they can flip the switch and suddenly those same Xeon chips will outperform Opteron on 64 bit, highly unlikely. The reality is that Intel's 64 bit chips are likely to underperform AMD's 64 bit chips on either 64 or 32 bit applications for the foreseeable future. Intel has a lot on their plates right now and probably bit off more than they can chew, thus Prescott being delayed by 6 months and still will horrible thermals after the C0 stepping. You better hope D0 is a lot better. cha-ching