Re: Portents of Itanium death ...Opteron. ... back to the speed bumps for Xeon.... > point out Opteron will be at 2.6 GHz whenever, ... In competing with IA32 it has the 64-bit option to offer as an unmatched ... (comp.os.vms)
Re: Portents of Itanium death ... > 2.0 GHz certainly isn't going to do much regarding an increase. ... How much a 40% clock-rate boost will help the Xeon MP ... One was a 2.4 GHz system with 8 GB of RAM,... > Where is Opteron in that space? ... (comp.os.vms)
Re: How bad are PCI graphics cards? ... One option is to sell the dual Xeon motherboard and buy another, but that is going to be more expensive. ... I'm just a bit concerned that I know the particular CPU intensive application I occasionally run, which might use a week or two of CPU time, runs faster on Opteron.... (alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt)
Re: Portents of Itanium death ... >> Intel has big speed bumps ahead with Xeon MP. ... Should keep Xeon... >> competetive with Opteron,... > In competing with Itanic (assuming Itanic turns into something one might ... (comp.os.vms)
Re: Maybe HP should get out of the hardware business.... ... the Itanic hype.... where Itanic beat x86 on benchmarks it ... at least compared with the MP bus-strangulation which Xeon... the third-party Horus Opteron chipset due this year ... (comp.os.vms)
