Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 18:10:12 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Athlon64 board with ECC support? Message-ID: <200506141610.j5EGAC8A016264@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20050613192009.GA4323@dragon.NUXI.org>
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David O'Brien <obrien@freebsd.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 06:16:13PM +0200, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> > I'm currently evaluating possibilities to upgrade to a
> > 64bit system (preferably AMD). I would like to get a
> > single-processor Athlon64 system, no Opteron, because of
> > heat, noise and power consumption (and price).
>
> There is no difference between Athlon64 and Opteron with respect to heat,
> noise and power consumption. There is yes a price difference.
That's interesting. I've seen several Athlon64 and Opteron
systems, and it was my impression that the latter were all
noisier and ran "hotter". But my impression could be wrong.
It's also interesting to note that there are now plenty of
Athlon64-based notebooks, but I haven't seen any Opteron
notebook so far, which lead me to believe that the Athlon64
has some power-saving features which the Opteron lacks.
Does the Opteron have "PowerNow" or "Cool'n'Quiet"?
Anyway, the price argument is still valid. This is for a
private PC at home, so would like to keep the costs down as
far as possible. I'll also try to re-use my old hardware,
such as a plain old PCI graphics card, so I need neither
AGP nor PCI-X oder PCI-E slots ... even a simple on-board
graphics would be good (saves one slot). I'm not going to
run demanding graphics applications on this machine. Also,
I don't need a S-ATA controller, because I don't plan to
buy new S-ATA drives. On-board (P-) ATA would be perfect.
> > PS: I'm reading the list, so there's no need to Cc me.
>
> Please set "Reply-To:" so one doesn't have to edit headers.
I'm sorry. I intended to do that, but I forgot.
Best regards
Oliver
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