<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Michael Trausch <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@trausch.us">mike@trausch.us</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>AMD CPUs can be used for heavy and numerically/computationally intensive tasks just fine.</p><br clear="all"></blockquote><div>Up until the most recent Intel CPU's (i5, i7, etc) AMD cpu made better number crunchers than Intels offerings due to primarily to the intrinsic memory access capabilities of the Opterons. It chopped 3-6 clock ticks off a memory fetch operation and made a HUGE improvement in recovery from incorrect pre-fetch operations. <br>
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