Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64

[Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>]

John Heil wrote:
> On Tue, 24 Feb 2004, Rogier Wolff wrote:
> 
> 
>>Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:43:54 +0100
>>From: Rogier Wolff <R.E.Wolff@BitWizard.nl>
>>To: Timothy Miller <miller@techsource.com>
>>Cc: John Heil <kerndev@sc-software.com>,
>>     Thomas Zehetbauer <thomasz@hostmaster.org>,
>>     Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>>Subject: Re: Intel vs AMD x86-64
>>
>>On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 08:32:07AM -0500, Timothy Miller wrote:
>>
>>>Things may have changed, but when I last built a Linux box (Athlon XP
>>>2800+), I was not able to find a motherboard for recent AMD processors
>>>with 64bit/66mhz PCI slots.  If I'd needed that, I would have had to go
>>>with Intel.
>>
>>Ehmm. We've been trying to get 64/66 slots in our systems a while, and
>>the only affordable option I've been able to find are the dual-athlon
>>boards (Tyan, Asus).
> 
> 
> 
> And so far, I've found Tyan to be the slightly more reliable of the two.


The problem was that the Tyan I found which did 64/66 was a dual 
processor board (not a problem) that had a maximum FSB of 266mhz (or 
maybe it was 200?).  I would have been stuck with dual Athlon XP 2400+ 
(or worse), rather than something faster like the 2800+ I have.  Well, 
the dual would be faster if I were running multi-threaded applications, 
but most of the CPU-intensive stuff I tend to tinker with is 
single-threaded and also memory-intensive, making the single 2800+ more 
attractive (I could have gotten the 3000+, but the cost increase wasn't 
worth the small performance increase).