Opty Better with more ram?

Anyone seen this?
http://www.amdzone.com/modules.php?...=article&sid=6226&mode=thread&order=0&thold=0

or care to comment on why the Opty's would appear to pull so much closer or ahead when more ram is used? I am curious because I always use 2G im my rigs and was going to go conroe, but if the Conroes cant handle as much ram then I may revisit my thinking for when I start a new build. Granted I have plenty of time, and this is one of the reasons I wait. It takes a bit for all these little nuggets of information to come out.

Just curious if anyone knows or has heard anything beyond this article or is it just BS?

Well for one the woodcrest isnt the conroe

Ahh, I see now, woodcrest is the old Net burst core. My apologies. I had thought they were comparing it to the newer xeon.

You would need to use XP 64 in order to truely get the benefit of 4gb's of mem anyway as XP 32 has issues when using over 3GB.

So basicly 2GB with XP is pretty optimal? I would assume vista will be better with more memory even with the 32bit version?

vista will support 4gigs, i think.

I should hope so, being the resource hog that windows has always been and with bigger and more resource hungry apps, 4G may be the norm before the next version comes out in 8 years or whatever their release cycle is now.