So 7,000 Opterons...that’s, what, about half of the Opterons AMD sold last year?
I’m not happy with AMD. I went Intel (Core 2 Duo E8400) on my new box because Intel has just blown AMD out of the water on mid- to high-end consumer CPUs. I was an AMD guy since the days of the K6/225...guess I’m part of the Evil Empire now.
Besides, from what I’ve heard, it’d take a petaflop machine to get more than 20 frames per second in Microsoft Flight Simulator X...
}:-)4
The K6 sucked. AMD rocked the GHz world (I own all AMDs currently) until Intel figured out what hit them and released the awesomely cool Core2. I plan on having a Core2 Quad on my next machine
If you look at the architecture of the new Intel processors they are more akin to the Socket A AMD and the Mobile P3 processors...
C2D had to step backwards to where AMD and Intel had been there and done that...
Proving that Instructions per clock trumps final speed.
Intel rode that pony until it died...