I've been looking into getting just such a machine to replace my dual 1GHz PIII. How about posting your system specs.
Richard Ray On Sat, 12 Feb 2005, Steven M. Schultz wrote: > Howdy - > > On Wednesday and Thursday I put together a new dual Opteron-250 > system and installed SuSE 9.2 (64bit). Uneventful install but there > were a few issues with rebuilding a few apps (all but one have been > resolved - can't get Ogle to build so I'll use Xine instead). > > Today I've been putting the Opteron system thru its paces and I have > to say the Opteron/AMD64 has impressed the hell out of me. > > The Opteron-250 with its 2.4GHz clock is about *2X* faster than the > 2GHz G5/PPC system I have! What took 34 hours to run on the G5 (or the > Athlon-MP/2800 that the Opteron replaced - the Athlon-MP and G5 were > quite similar in speed) is only going to take about 16 hours on the > Opteron-250. > > y4mdenoise is getting about 2.7 frames/sec on the Opteron and about > 1.3 frames/sec on the G5. How much of that difference can be attributed > to the 64bit operation on the Opteron I do not know (OS/X is still > 32bit userland until 10.4 comes out in a couple months). > > Pity the Opteron-252 (2.6GHz clock) wasn't quite on the shelves yet > when I placed the order :) > > Cheers, > Steven Schultz > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide > Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. > Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. > http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click > _______________________________________________ > Mjpeg-users mailing list > Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users > ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users
