continuing from a thread here (short summary: should one go with dual-core Athlon, or dual Opteron ?)
this post suggests that one should go with dual-core Athlon first, even if it's by route of getting a single-core Athlon first and upgrading to dual-core later. I've actually considered of going this route as one of the options, but a question:
why not go with dual Opteron, since it has been established that it has "more I/O" ?
Opteron is optimized for Server applications, but then won't it be better to have more I/O for any application ?
Tests in some reviews have shown then dual-cores behave pretty much like dual processors. Thus, should it matter which one you get ?
If the advice is still to go with dual-core as opposed to dual procs, then why ? Is it because of the price issues or something else ?
btw, I'm going to be using the processor(s) for a desktop machine, not a server, but I may/will run thread-optimized applications, like video editing/Premiere/compression applications. |
