Regardless, the soft isn't optimized for either of the 64bit core.

But right now I get the best of the Athlon FX, under 2 hours each WU
"Benjamin Gawert" <bgawert@gmx.de> wrote in message
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Tomislav Vuk wrote:

Neither one. For a blazing fast SETI cruncher I'd take two 1.5GHz
Itanium2 CPUs:

http://www.hp.com/workstations/itanium/zx6000/

The 1.5GHz machine should do ~45-50 WUs/day.

Dual Opterons are cheaper and faster.

Cheaper? Maybe (but then You can get a HP rx2600 Dual Itanium2 Server f�r
1999EUR, so a comparable Dual Opteron isn't really cheaper). Faster? Not
that I know (Itanium2 1.5GHz takes ~55min/WU)...

Benjamin