[plug] [link] This needs some more pins!

[Leon Brooks]

Just check out the pictures!

    http://www.hwextreme.com/reviews/processor/opteron/

    The [800MHz Hammer] machine was running Mandrake Linux, kernel
    2.4.18-24mdk, and identified itself as running at 797.7 MHz with
    256k of cache.

According to the benchmarks below that quote, this 800MHz Hammer ran 4x faster 
than a 400MHz Celeron, which is impressive given that the memory etc would 
only be about 30% faster (ie, it ran 2x faster clock-for-clock despite the 
memory being 33% slower in relative terms).

The article is also a good, succinct explanation of how AMD's HyperTransport 
technology works. HT makes connecting up to 8 of the beasties together a 
relatively simple task (practically no glue logic).

Cheers; Leon