Howdy - On Wednesday and Thursday I put together a new dual Opteron-250 system and installed SuSE 9.2 (64bit). Uneventful install but there were a few issues with rebuilding a few apps (all but one have been resolved - can't get Ogle to build so I'll use Xine instead).
Today I've been putting the Opteron system thru its paces and I have to say the Opteron/AMD64 has impressed the hell out of me. The Opteron-250 with its 2.4GHz clock is about *2X* faster than the 2GHz G5/PPC system I have! What took 34 hours to run on the G5 (or the Athlon-MP/2800 that the Opteron replaced - the Athlon-MP and G5 were quite similar in speed) is only going to take about 16 hours on the Opteron-250. y4mdenoise is getting about 2.7 frames/sec on the Opteron and about 1.3 frames/sec on the G5. How much of that difference can be attributed to the 64bit operation on the Opteron I do not know (OS/X is still 32bit userland until 10.4 comes out in a couple months). Pity the Opteron-252 (2.6GHz clock) wasn't quite on the shelves yet when I placed the order :) Cheers, Steven Schultz ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_id=6595&alloc_id=14396&op=click _______________________________________________ Mjpeg-users mailing list Mjpeg-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mjpeg-users