Recent content by Ardrid

Ok, there are a number of misconceptions floating around in this thread, the first of which is that having deep pipelines makes the Xeon faster than the Opteron. That couldn't be farther from the truth as you'll see here and here. Having a deep pipeline is what hurts the Xeon, even more so now...

I registered just to address Nemisis' post. You need to do some serious research before you start spouting off comments. First off, HT (HyperTransport) is used for more than just SMP setups. HT is effectively the I/O link of the entire system. It's what the processor uses to talk to the...