Dragonfly and Hyperthreading....

[David Xu]

Martin P. Hellwig wrote:
EM1897 at xxxxxxx wrote:
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what today's CPUS deliver anyway. I've never seen any compelling evidence
that AMD-based machines are faster in practice.  Right now I'm testing 
a 3.4/800Ghz P4 system with 1K cache and PCIExpress and its slower 
than a 3.06/533 Xeon with 512K cache and PCI-X. The faster CPU is 
faster in raw 
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Have you googled already for tyan K8WE? Dual Opteron 200 series, dual 
PCI-express ready for SLI and yes both with full 16 lanes when in SLI 
opposed to shared 16 lanes as other current bords have.
The bord will go out for about 600EUR (all features), not even that 
expensive (still way above my budget).

I just browsed into the topic, but K8WE is fully based on NVIDIA kludge
chipsets, the chipsets company is not open source friendly, I don't
think you will get good support from open source world, based on the
point, Intel is still the best X86 Server platform except its CPU
problem.
David Xu