[NTLUG:Discuss] Re: Bryan's Article in Sysadmin Rocks!! -- 7 diagrams that bypass the verbage ...

[Bryan J. Smith]

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 07:00, Dave Augustus wrote:
> If you haven't read his article in the most recent issue, it is worth
> the buy. He provides real information about the different architecures
> of motherboards and thier impact on performance with different
> processors.  Opteron rocks! But only on the right motherboard. :) 

On Thu, 2004-11-18 at 12:32, Dave Augustus wrote: 
> Looks like it is online at:
> http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/

If you're not into my verbage, be sure to at least check out the no less
than *7* diagrams which put the issues of interconnect into _visual_
form for more complete understanding:  

Fig 1:  Traditional PC Chipset  
  http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/0411b_f1.htm  

Fig 2:  Intel MCH Chipset Approach  
  http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/0411b_f2.htm  

Fig 3:  Proprietary (non-Intel standard) Xeon NUMA Option  
  http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/0411b_f3.htm  

Fig 4:  Comparing Socket-754/939/940 v. Socket-604/LGA-775  
  http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/0411b_f4.htm  

Fig 5:  AMD Opteron 800 4-way Reference Design
  http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/0411b_f5.htm  

Fig 6:  Cheap Opteron 200 2-way Design w/Unused Channels
  http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/0411b_f6.htm  

Fig 7:  Reference nVidia CK8"Pro" (nForce4) + AMD8131 Design
  http://www.samag.com/documents/sam0411b/0411b_f7.htm  


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Bryan J. Smith                                    b.j.smith at ieee.org 
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