AMD Opteron 254 processor reviewed at TechReport

For any of you out there considering a dual processor / Dual core system you might want to read though this review at the Tech Report. They tend to recant though stuff we already knew but also touch on how 4 sometimes not as good as 2 which is only sometimes better than 1.
"FOR THE PAST 12 months, Intel and AMD have praised the merits of their respective dual-core CPU designs and focused on thread-level parallelism as the key to better perfomance, while gradually distancing themselves from the old "clock speed" performance standard. Although Intel beat AMD by a handful of weeks when it came time to formally launch dual-core desktop systems, AMD was the first company to offer dual-core solutions across the server, workstation, and desktop markets. "
I still stand behind dual processor systems, not cause they perform better but cause they look cooler.

Related Web URL: http://techreport.com/reviews/2005q4/opteron-254/i...