[PLUG] AMD CPUs for a linux workstation

[Rich Shepard]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, Mark Martin wrote:

> Tom's Hardware benchmarked 65 processors and posted the results last week in 
> this article
> 
> http://www.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030217/index.html

  Thanks, Mark.
 
> Tom's is generally a fan of AMD but points out that the Athlon has had a 
> longer lifespan than any other modern processor and it is past time to move 
> to the 64-bit Opteron or Athlon 64, which are expected to hit the shelves 
> before mid-year and in the fall, respectively.  See the AMD processor roadmap

  The primary use of the system determines what processor is most
appropriate. For writing, accounting, spreadsheets, e-mail and other
user-bound work the cpu speed and bit size is not terribly important. For a
machine on which I would be running spatial and
hydrologic/hydraulic/sediment transport models or fuzzy decision support
models I could justify a fast, 64-bit, multiple-cpu configuration. Actually,
for the low-end stuff, the current (~5 year old) PII/333MHz system is plenty
fast.

Rich

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