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To: eracer who wrote (198378)5/23/2006 2:45:09 AM
From: PetzRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
What happened to Woodcrest in June? Intel is saying Woodcrest-based systems will be "definitely" be available in the third quarter of this year, but to give you some indication of how close it really is, we were allowed to poke, prod, test and examine a fully operational Bensley/Woodcrest system. If I were a betting man, I would expect the things to ship in early July, if not sooner. Intel is obviously pushing hard to get these things out of the door.

They expect corporations to trust their data to the following?:

These early Woodcrest systems were reasonably stable in our experience, although some others around us experienced BSODs when attempting to insert USB flash drives and the like.

Excuse me, but plugging in a USB flash drive doesn't sound like the ultimate stability test, does it?

They did many workstation-style benchmarks, but no server benchmarks. They only did two benchmarks in both 64-bit and 32-bit mode. On one, the Opteron system gained 10% vs. 1% on Woodcrest. On the other, Opteron gained 1% vs. 4% on Woodcrest.

I think eracer's characterization that 3 GHz Opteron would have matched it is fair on these workstation type apps, but add the advantage of DDR2-800 and Opteron would pull ahead. Real server benchmarks with a lot of I/O would stress the FSB and result in a further Opteron advantage. It appears that 64-bit should do the same.

Petz
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