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To: Joe NYC who wrote (78964)	5/1/2002 4:34:19 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Author of the "Itanic" article has been "converted". <g> theregister.co.uk

To: Joe NYC who wrote (78964)	5/1/2002 10:58:21 AM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Dear Joe: Why do you think that a double socket 2 way Opteron DCSC with only one Opteron in the first socket "the one attached to the AGP and SB" would not count as a single CPU solution? There would be no degradation like a Athlon MP in an 760MPX board. You only have DIMMs in the first two banks of the four on the board each with 4 slots (if numbered 1 through 16 in order, fill only slots numbered 1 and 5 with unbuffered DDR DIMMs). This would take care of any latency losses with the extra cycles used with buffered (registered) DDR. And it would have PCI-X slots and high speed AGP (like a nVidea GPU with dual channels for local video memory (given 64 bit addressing even video could have 4GB of local DDR with the Opteron being able to use any left over for additional main memory (UMA in reverse))) with high end ethernet, sound, etc. Intel would have a hard time matching it, yet it would also could be used as a base for a very high end workstation. It could even make Prescott and Itanium look far behind. Pete