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AMD server chip price cuts before September 25, 2005?
Hi,
I'm in the market for an 8-way server for work, and am leaning towards buying one from pcforeveryone.com, specifically their "ThinkMate 4U Quad Opteron 8x Hotswap SATA" model with 4 dual-core Opteron 865 chips. I can pick up one of these with oodles of RAM and disk for $13K or so. http://www.pcsforeveryone.com/produc...ducts_id=14103 I work for the (US) Federal Govt and need to initiate this purchase before the end of our fiscal year, on September 30th. What is the likelyhood that AMD will either drop their prices on 865 chips, or introduce a faster chip at the same price, before September 25th, 2005? There were some other server chip price cuts in early August, but not these. I'm wondering if there are some patterns to these price cuts ... Thanks, Jonathan |
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i doubt it, opterons are too good and xeons are even less competative
than the pentium4, on the plus side your buying a VERY fast 8core rig which should still have a fair upgrade path |
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I'm in the market for an 8-way server for work, and am leaning towards buying one from pcforeveryone.com, specifically their "ThinkMate 4U Quad Opteron 8x Hotswap SATA" model with 4 dual-core Opteron 865 chips. I can pick up one of these with oodles of RAM and disk for $13K or so. http://www.pcsforeveryone.com/produc...ducts_id=14103 I work for the (US) Federal Govt and need to initiate this purchase before the end of our fiscal year, on September 30th. What is the likelyhood that AMD will either drop their prices on 865 chips, or introduce a faster chip at the same price, before September 25th, 2005? There were some other server chip price cuts in early August, but not these. I'm wondering if there are some patterns to these price cuts ... Latest word from The Inquirer is that there's a new set of Opteron price cuts planned to go into effect September 1. See http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=25756 for the details. Scott |
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