What NB clocks did they run on this Opteron?Also the ram in question is ECC DDR2-800,compared to 1066 on Agena and C2Q.
I've just seen the update in the German version of the article:
http://www.gamestar.de/hardware/test...nom_ii_x4.html
So the ram was CL6 ECC DDR2-800.One can assume that CL4/5 DDR2-1066 ram memory would give an extra boost over the one they used.Also we don't know what NB clocks will Deneb run at.It may be the same 2.2Ghz as Shanghai parts,or it may be higher than that.All of this coupled with a few BIOS settings we don't know about(CnQ active?<CPU TWEAK ACTIVE?-those are non existent in server bios i presume) can't give us a valid picture how exactly Deneb will perform.Update: Response to some reader questions regarding the Opteron test system:
The Geforce GTX 280 was at full PCI Express 16x-speed connections (it is in the bios on the motherboard to configure server). As DDR2 memory came-800-RAM (CL6) with error correction (ECC, mode: Basic) to use. Since the Phenom X4 II (unlike the Opteron system) to show even faster RAM modules supports, should the gaming performance yet at the same clock by a few percentage points increase.
But even in this short and not exactly accurate simulation,Deneb shows some massive gains in UT3 and Winrar(which is VERY sensitive to memory setting on K8/K10).




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