"Jon Aquilina" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>  wrote:
..also why opterons wouldnt there be a better performance gain from
the new 45nm quad core intel's with 12mb cache?
The memory bandwidth on the XEONS is quite restrictive for many types of calculations, plus the overall power consumption on large memory systems using XEONS and FBDIMMS is also a factor.


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