[bf1942] AMD FPO

Troy Chinnery t_chinnery at iprimus.com.au
Sun Sep 21 01:10:18 EDT 2003


An SMP build would be useless if the server is single-threaded however, and 
most servers are (single threaded).

Personally, I would go with the P4 (I'm not an Intel zealot either). In my 
(albiet limited) experience with running game servers, I find the P4s to be 
easier to maintain. And due to HTT you can run an SMP kernel too iirc.

Jon Wolberg wrote:
> Troy-
> 
>     Thanks for the great info.  It would be very  nice to have a SMP build
> for the server since the windows one isnt smp-aware, but that would mean a
> lot more work for Andreas, so I dont think it'll happen.  I was just trying
> to get an idea of what HW to use for our linux testbed, a P4 3.0C or a
> AthlonXP 3000.
> 
> Jon
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Troy Chinnery" <t_chinnery at iprimus.com.au>
> To: <bf1942 at icculus.org>
> Sent: Saturday, September 20, 2003 9:21 PM
> Subject: Re: [bf1942] AMD FPO
> 
> 
> 
>>Jon, I'm pretty sure than an SSE2 optimised build running on a P4 would
> 
> easily
> 
>>beat an SSE optimised build running on an Athlon-XP. Needless to say
> 
> however,
> 
>>I doubt very much they will release several different builds. I think the
> 
> best
> 
>>we could hope for would be maybe an i686 build in addition to the standard
>>i386 build. (Maybe a build for SMP too? How many threads does the server
>>actually have? Only 1?)
>>
>>Though I do agree heartily that it would be nice to have an Athlon-XP
> 
> build as
> 
>>well as a P4 build. This probably wouldn't annoy anyone because 99% of
> 
> people
> 
>>wouldn't run this kind of server on a lesser CPU. But there are many
>>variations of these chips also.
>>
>>Troy.
>>
>>Jon Wolberg wrote:
>>
>>>Hey All-
>>>
>>>    I dont know if this has been asked/answered before, but is the
>>>linuxded optomized to take advantage of the higher FPO output of AMD
>>>chips over Intel?  Has anyone done any testing at all on AMD vs. Intel
>>>with the linuxded?
>>>
>>>Jon
>>
> 
> 




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