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- May 23, 2008
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- London, England
Hey guys!
Been away from the computer hardware scene for the past year or 2.
I am now looking to build a computer for scientific computing, and I am looking for the best bang/$.
The workload is all integer, and perfectly scalable (4 cores = 4x performance).
Ideally mini-ITX, but not crucial.
The price will just need to include motherboard + CPU, since everything else is the same. Must have integrated graphics, otherwise + the cheapest GPU.
Dual cores are pretty much out since they aren't that much cheaper than quads when price of the motherboard is included, and they are half as fast.
AMD 8-cores are pretty interesting. Each of the cores have an integer unit, so integer performance is supposed to be close to 8x, but how much performance hit does it get with the shared frontends?
Cache is not very important, as long as it's not tiny.
Any suggestions?
Thanks
Been away from the computer hardware scene for the past year or 2.
I am now looking to build a computer for scientific computing, and I am looking for the best bang/$.
The workload is all integer, and perfectly scalable (4 cores = 4x performance).
Ideally mini-ITX, but not crucial.
The price will just need to include motherboard + CPU, since everything else is the same. Must have integrated graphics, otherwise + the cheapest GPU.
Dual cores are pretty much out since they aren't that much cheaper than quads when price of the motherboard is included, and they are half as fast.
AMD 8-cores are pretty interesting. Each of the cores have an integer unit, so integer performance is supposed to be close to 8x, but how much performance hit does it get with the shared frontends?
Cache is not very important, as long as it's not tiny.
Any suggestions?
Thanks