Im just after a shakedown of the main differences between these 2 and the Tbred/Barton? I understand the Athlon 64 is 754pins, Operton is 940pins and the operton has 3x as many hypertransport links then athlon 64, but i just dont get where it all comes in?! If operton is a "server solution" why do so many people want one?? nobody want itainiums and quite understandably! Im so out of touch on the AMD side these days.
afaik the opteron has more cache dual mem controllers extra hypertransport links i think its because of the extra mem bandwidth they offer? not sure really i cant afford one anyway
Look for some of zapwizards threads, hes pretty well explained them all (search for block diagrams) I think he iincluded them in one of his replies. dual 64 bit mem versus single 128 bit Hypertransport links cache I think those are the main differences.
http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthre...rpage=20&highlight=Block diagram&pagenumber=2 scroll down a smidge
