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Well one of the first Dual Core AMD Opteron reviews I have seen posted is over @ Tech Report. Give it a gander!
MICROPROCESSORS ARE GETTING too hot, requiring too much power, and not delivering enough additional performance for it. That's the basic problem. The engine that's driven the microcomputer's incredible rise in capability over the past 30 years, Moore's Law, isn't quite out of steam yet, but some of its offshoots are on the ropes. CPU designers have nearly exhausted their collective bag of tricks to get more performance out of additional transistors on a chip by increasing parallelism at the instruction level. Speculative execution and deep pipelining are by now very standard features, and CPU designs are getting increasingly complex and hard to manage. When Gordon Moore's goose lays a golden egg and the number of transistors possible on a chip doubles, as it is supposed to do every 18 months, taking advantage of the windfall has proven increasingly difficult.

Fortunately, both AMD and Intel seem to have settled on an answer: thread-level parallelism. By dialing back clock speeds and putting multiple CPU cores on a chip, the theory goes, processor performance can rise as transistor counts do. This sort of parallelism will, of course, be familiar to those who know a thing or two about Opteron processors, which have commonly been employed in pairs as part of server or workstation systems.

We've had a pair of dual-core Opteron processors on the test bench for some time now, and we're pleased to report some rather impressive results. AMD's dual-core design is something more than just a pair of CPUs glued together on a single piece of silicon, and this design choice yields a performance dividend. Keep reading to see how the new Opteron 275 stacks up against its Opteron predecessors and against Intel's latest "Nocona" Xeons. We also have a head-to-head battle of single-socket, dual-core workstation processors: the Opteron 175 versus the Pentium Extreme Edition 840.
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Other AMD Dual Core reviews
Dual Core 875 Opterons on Linux @ Linux Hardware
Dual Dual Core 875's Opterons @ Trusted Reviews
Dual Core X75 Opterons @ Hexus



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Intel Knew DDR2 was Poor Design @ Cooltechzone
AMD May Skip DDR2 Altogether @ Cooltechzone
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That Dual Core Opteron review has a ton of great info for those wondering what AMD's initial desktop dual core 64's will do.
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they will eat holes in your wallet :) they start at $500
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Yup, guess the NDA was taken off last night, so prepare to see lots of dual core amd reviews coming up over the next day or so.
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More updates to the thread, as well as a section for AMD Dual Core reviews.
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they are lookinh good
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But as said, in most things now days they are single threaded and benefit more from pure clockspeed(coupled with other things of course) so a single higher clocked opti is better in many cases.

Dual core only shows its benefits in huge multithreaded applications, sadly not many are out on the market.

I'm willing to be that software manufacturers will be moving towards multithreaded applications soon to take advantage of this hardware :0
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