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To: wbmw who wrote (238859)8/15/2007 7:04:56 PM
From: Joe NYCRead Replies (2) | Respond to of 275872
 
wbmw,

And any system that uses Intel's DDR2 based San Clemente chipset will be much lower power than an AMD config.

When is that coming out? Intel certainly has shot itself in the foot with exclusive FB-DIMM chipset (and with killing all alternative servers chipset providers). The FB-DIMM only policy has helped AMD and Opteron. Opteron would have lost more share if Intel provided registered DDR2 support for its server chips.

Joe



To: wbmw who wrote (238859)8/16/2007 3:27:41 PM
From: PetzRead Replies (1) | Respond to of 275872
 
wbmw, re:
<Intel will be 36W lower power in the CPUs (2 * 18W).
<Any config that uses 4 FB-DIMMs or less will be lower power than AMD's system.

It's not just the FBDIMM penalty, your northbridge more than tips the scales in AMD's favor. The northbridge also has the problem that it can't go to low power mode unless neither CPU is accessing memory.

And you conveniently forgot that AMD and Intel TDP specs are not created equal.

Petz


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