On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 18:49:35 GMT, "rms" wrote:

Anandtech's review pretty much hammers the coffin shut on Xeons, it looks to
me.

I am curious about the relative price of the Opteron vs Xeon systems.
Pricewatch has the Xeon at $300 while the Opteron 248 is $1000. What is an
average total system cost for one vs the other, and what about
support/reliability issues? No mention of these in the article.

I bet the Xeon price you saw was for a low-end Prestonia or perhaps an ancient
Foster DP processor.

Now go look for the top of the line Gallatin MP with at least the 2MB cache...

/daytripper (hint: it's a *lot* more money)