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Exchange may run faster with Dual core, BUT..
The Exchange benchmarks are owned by the Opteron. Microsoft Exchange is a memory pig. Every transaction runs back to the memory. HyperTransport gives AMD's Opteron a huge advantage. Even after Intel manages to get two cores on a chip, which is a real bodge job by the way, they both are saddled by Intel's lack of high speed interconnects. Netburst architecture is incredibly reliant on memory throughput and now both cores get to share it.

With server virtualization becoming more important, memory access is the real bottleneck. Intel still hasn't solved the problem. They could just as easily adopt HyperTransport, but their pig-headedness won't allow them to using anything that doesn't have "Intel" silk screened on it.

In the server race, Intel is disappearing in the rearview mirror.
Posted by: Uber Dweeb   Posted on: 09/26/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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