[TriLUG] Shopping for new laptop...

[David Brain]

On 7/12/07, Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at wm7d.net> wrote:
>
> says that the dual core opterons have no extra memory
> bandwidth than the single cores. I was at OLS about 2 weeks
> ago, and from what I heard, it's the same for all the
> multicore processors.
>

Right - but that's even true of multi cpu servers (at least non-exotic
NUMA boxes) never mind dual core.  There is an _awful lot_ of memory
bandwidth on modern machines,  to the point where the bottleneck is
far more likely to be something else like disk or your PCI(e,-X or
whatever) bus, especially on a laptop.

David.