[ale] Do people still roll their own Linux desktops?

[jim.kinney at gmail.com (Jim Kinney)]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:54 PM, Michael Trausch <mike at trausch.us> wrote:

> AMD CPUs can be used for heavy and numerically/computationally intensive
> tasks just fine.
>
> 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.

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