First you bollox the test w a bios floppp. convenient/
Then you can't afford enough DDR3.
Nobody seems to know if bozo turbo is off.
You don't know that a real IT would not use turbo.
Your readers all hate you for being so smug.
You have reinforced why I don't come here anymore.
You are conning and lying about AMD.
You use pro-Intel conditions and pretend you are fair.
You discredit a very detailed test posted with real facts and also it bears the names of the testers - and their source. That test, in the 'comments' is far better than anything on this website.
You insult people who refuse to consume the manure you spread.
You treat us all like mushrooms.
You will refute all of the above.
In short, you suck so bad.

ANYONE SEEKING REAL INFO RE AMD SERVERS OR DESKTOPS GOTO AMDZONE.

and if I wanted to know about intel I would not come here for that either.

Do you actually expect any better treatment than this?

I am sure also that you will tell us all that
the i7 TLB BUG IS JUST OK TOO.

You will probably del this post. Like I care. Ship of fools.

Toms hardware has gotten better, but 25 page reviews that fit on two pages printed, thats still pushing it especially for the ads. Anandtech is better on my phone( which I am posting from)anyhow, and has a heck of a lot less pages and ads.

I see the issue everyone has with the recent Intel king of the hill performance. But I hate to be the one throwing laymen terms out, Amd is not as good as intel. Multi socket systems aside, every bit of Intels consumer market outdue AMD.

Server tests also take alot more time, and more documentation, before they can be put into a chart for our eyes. I think this was mainly focused on the HT differences in the intel chip, and AMD scores were posted as refrence points.

The DDR3 itself being unregistered(as noted) should show the readers that this is not an apples to apples compairson. I'm just lost on why i7 chips are almost strictly consumer right now, so why not just wait for the server chips and server memory.

I can't believe that the new Phenom II X4 hasn't even got a simple blog post about its ridiculous OC claims on the net. It's a week in and nothing even small shows up here.

i like websites that have 1 or 2 ads per page.

TH has one of the most ad-bombarded visual presentations i've
ever seen on a website. ads between posts in the forums.

if this was TH, there would be ads here in the "post comments
to blog" section !

Please let us all know whether the TURBO BOOST feature was in use when you were performing the above tests.Thanks

Despite the countless millions of dollars companies like Intel have injected into the Linux kernel over the years a simple Linpack test shows its flaws as it can't deal with the extra HT logical cores.

It shows too much money is injected into one spot and should be more evenly spread into other OS projects like FreeBSD. Just because one project has a nicer installer shouldn't be its justification.

Did you disable the nehelem turbo boost or whatever it was called? If you are only using 1 core (not a realistic scenario I assume), then nehelem will clock that core 1 or 2 multipliers higher. However, that is unlikely to be happening in a heavily loaded server right?