Asus SK8N nForce3 Pro150 and Opteron

29th June 2003, 01:51

Has anyone seen this? I found it to be an interesting articile/review, which explains the technologies quite clearlly;
http://www.hardwaremania.com/reviews...n/sk8n-1.shtml

RichBa5tard · 29th June 2003, 12:48

Good link, thanks.

This quote sums it all up in my humble opinion:

Quote:

I find nForce 3 Pro and Opteron somehow weird. Opteron is designed to be used in 2 – 4 – 8 processor servers and the fastest one is Opteron Model 244 with 1.8 GHz. clock speed. However the price of this CPU is quite high, meaning it is hard to build a platform with good price/performance rate. It is like using nForce2 chipset with an Athlon MP. I think NVIDIA decided to take its chances with Opteron after seeing that Athlon64 will be late.

The Senile Doctor · 30th June 2003, 13:32

they should stop comparing them to sameclock bartons and start comparing them to what they'll be up against in desktop market...
3.0's and 3000+'s

30th June 2003, 22:15

Agreed..why downclock the Barton

3rd July 2003, 08:35

Yup , Intel won't downclock their cpu's to say : look @ the same Mhz , the amd is faster. i don't know the pr rating op that cpu but is its 3000+ or something i think te p4 3.0c wil be muchh faster....

uke:

3rd July 2003, 14:39

I wonder if AMD has silicon which can run at 3.2GHz? Considereing the thoeretical difference in performance, if AMD had a CPU which ran at 3.2GHz and then put it up against Intel's P4 3.2 what do you think the difference would be? That I'd like to see.

Gamer · 3rd July 2003, 15:36

you need about 1000mhz PIV cpu power more then AMD to get the same results.
I think that new AMD proc is a good step in the right direction.

3rd July 2003, 21:25

Quote:

Originally posted by Gamer
you need about 1000mhz PIV cpu power more then AMD to get the same results.
I think that new AMD proc is a good step in the right direction.

A bit to late i think , If they could upgrade the clock 700Mhz or so , ok , but @ the time there will be cpu's and mobo available intel will be at 3.4Ghz or something , compared to the 1.6-1.8 Ghz of the athlon , In a big part of the aplications, what technoligy they may have, amd will need more clock cycles to keep by the p4...

Sorry for my crappy english

4th July 2003, 04:27

I agree, I believe Inteol especially with it's Hyperhtreading and Buffered RAM, and now PAT which is basically mirroring the LL PSD of low Latency memory, and placing it in the memory controller. The QDR or Buffered effect of the FSB needed this to bring back to more "relaistic" timmings. I must say AMD's chipsets still have the advantage in this area, as their unbuffered score more accurately portray, or ake advantage of currenbt LL DDR. Yet the gap is widening, and with Dual DDR now fully intrgrate into Intel chipsets it's time for AMD to do some serious clock adjustments. Rgeardless of the PR system, end-users especially businesses which comprise the gist of sales, want the bottom line, and to them Cklock speed equates to performance. AMD had it's tinme with the PR system for almost two year now, and it hasn't gained them any ground in the battle against Intel. They need to boost clock speeds irregardless if their merely placating those people whom are ignorant as to the architectual evolution of the modern CPU.

29th June 2003, 01:51	#1
Liquid3D Posts: n/a	Asus SK8N nForce3 Pro150 and Opteron Has anyone seen this? I found it to be an interesting articile/review, which explains the technologies quite clearlly; http://www.hardwaremania.com/reviews...n/sk8n-1.shtml

30th June 2003, 13:32	#3
The Senile Doctor Member Join Date: May 2002 Location: wherever the doom is Posts: 3,171	they should stop comparing them to sameclock bartons and start comparing them to what they'll be up against in desktop market... 3.0's and 3000+'s __________________ OC-2-the-death Where the Reverend is doing his Magick, all mortals be silent Doom over the world

3rd July 2003, 15:36	#7
Gamer [M] Reviewer Join Date: May 2002 Posts: 4,587	you need about 1000mhz PIV cpu power more then AMD to get the same results. I think that new AMD proc is a good step in the right direction. __________________

30th June 2003, 22:15	#4
BullDog Posts: n/a	Agreed..why downclock the Barton

3rd July 2003, 08:35	#5
RuB87 Posts: n/a	Yup , Intel won't downclock their cpu's to say : look @ the same Mhz , the amd is faster. i don't know the pr rating op that cpu but is its 3000+ or something i think te p4 3.0c wil be muchh faster.... uke:

3rd July 2003, 14:39	#6
Liquid3D Posts: n/a	I wonder if AMD has silicon which can run at 3.2GHz? Considereing the thoeretical difference in performance, if AMD had a CPU which ran at 3.2GHz and then put it up against Intel's P4 3.2 what do you think the difference would be? That I'd like to see.

4th July 2003, 04:27	#9
Liquid3D Posts: n/a	I agree, I believe Inteol especially with it's Hyperhtreading and Buffered RAM, and now PAT which is basically mirroring the LL PSD of low Latency memory, and placing it in the memory controller. The QDR or Buffered effect of the FSB needed this to bring back to more "relaistic" timmings. I must say AMD's chipsets still have the advantage in this area, as their unbuffered score more accurately portray, or ake advantage of currenbt LL DDR. Yet the gap is widening, and with Dual DDR now fully intrgrate into Intel chipsets it's time for AMD to do some serious clock adjustments. Rgeardless of the PR system, end-users especially businesses which comprise the gist of sales, want the bottom line, and to them Cklock speed equates to performance. AMD had it's tinme with the PR system for almost two year now, and it hasn't gained them any ground in the battle against Intel. They need to boost clock speeds irregardless if their merely placating those people whom are ignorant as to the architectual evolution of the modern CPU.