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Subject: Re: Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache
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Martin Nilsson wrote:
> Mike Jakubik wrote:
>> As much as i love AMDs cpus, the availability of good server 
>> motherboards and chipsets stinks, hopefully that will change when 
>> socket AM2 comes out.
>
> That is an old myth: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/

Its not an old myth. Find me a single cpu opteron board, with dual Intel 
network cards (bge and nve suck ass) connected to a PCIe bus. Sorry, it 
doesn't exist. You have your pick of the old AMD chipset, the crappy 
Nvidia, or the unsupported ServerWorks, which still doesn't have PCIe.