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New Quad Xeon MP gives Opteron a hard time


http://www.x86-secret.com/popups/articleswindow.php?id=126

http://www.x86-secret.com/articles/cpu/truland/quadcore-6.htm

Conclusion
The conclusion is simple: For a first attempt, it is a master stroke. INTEL shows here its absolute supremacy (let us not be afraid of the words) in the field of the chipsets. One is, here, well far from ATI which galère since years to leave a correct southbridge. First chipset "house" intended for the waiters four-processors Xeon MP, E8500 does not disappoint and leaves far behind the chipsets of ServerWorks, which rested on its bay-trees since years.

At all events, the Truland platform can be now measured with quadri-Will choose with weapons of weight. If, side CPU, the AMD/Intel match always remain in favour of AMD, of a short head, force is to note that side chipset, the advantage is with INTEL. Indeed, in addition to rare chipsets AMD, very basic, no manufacturer "pro" currently presented himself to create a platform advanced around Opteron 8xx of AMD. However, the large accounts, lorsqu’they buy a waiter quad, does not buy that CPUs, they buy a whole. And the effectiveness of a platform is not measured with the simple performances of its CPUs...