| | Special hardware roundup: Opteron 866 Tested |
 | | The 866 Stepping E0 runs at 2.2Ghz, the speed of an Athlon 3500+ but with twice the cache and with SSE3. |
 | | Even though, there has not been any straight comparison yet with any Intel processors, you might find the GamePC's review comparing the 248 and the Xeon 3.2A interesting and of course, Anand's own part I and part II articles comparing Intel Dual core performance with one AMD Athlon 64 3500+. |
 | | Then let's try using the Opteron 866 vs the Opteron 852 and the latest Xeon and Pentium D 2.8Ghz plus some professional benchmarks - Video encoding, Linux etc. Mind you, AMD is launching its Server parts first while Intel has released the desktop Pentium D 2.8Ghz for benchmark. |
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