Differences between AMD and Intel CPUs [was: Re: Dragonfly andHyperthreading....]

[EM1897 at aol.com]

>>I've
>> set the challenge: find me an AMD solution that is as
>> fast as a single 3.2Ghz P4 for $360. I don't have an
>
>Agree, so the challenge is to get some ubench'es of opteron 144/ athlon 
>3200 (they are now about 229 EUR same of the 3.2 intel) and compare that 
>with ubench'es of your 3.2 GHz machine.

Alas, you don't "get" it and perhaps never will. You can't 
even buy a PCI-X MB for that price, so even if the processor
was free you lose. And you don't need to "bench" it if your
MB has a bus thats 8x slower. Its not a usable product even if
your cpu is 3x faster. 

I see I'm wasting my time here if you think an opteron 144
is "comparable".  Thankfully my competitors think similarly.