View Full Version : Alpha EV 8
Alfstrad
10-04-2004, 09:24 AM
Anyone has seen a comparation between the HP´s processor Alpha and Opteron or P4 ?????
It is faster ???? :cool:
Crankster
10-21-2004, 06:24 AM
Depends on what you do. It requires special code to make use of the capacity. I'd go with a itanium cluster ahead of it if i wanted a supercomp
jjcom
10-31-2004, 12:02 PM
I'd probly go a Opterons cluster for the most combatilbity.
cmb4787
11-26-2004, 09:09 PM
i thought they canned the alpha
jjcom
11-26-2004, 09:33 PM
nope, HP annouced the 2.1ghz Alpha. Its going to be the last of the proud and mightly Alpha line...
jjcom
ryanpgroovy
12-01-2004, 07:36 PM
The EV8 bus system was the inspiration for the orginal athlon cpu bus.
nice to know but there processin is somthing that you cant compare to a pc they work totaly differntly i mean like that mac runs RISK so it does not need as much processing power because it work on a differnet level :stick:
IvanAndreevich
12-28-2004, 12:04 PM
ryanpgroovy
K7 CPUs use EV6 bus.
ryanpgroovy
12-28-2004, 01:08 PM
your right , My bad