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Xeon spanked by Opteron again; how will Itanium2 fare ?
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. rms |
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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. rms $300 will get you a 2.8 GHz Xeon with 512 KB L2 cache and no L3 and even worse performance than the ones used in the AnandTech benchmarks: basically the same processor with 2 MB of L3 cache tacked on, plus another $3000 tacked onto the price. Performance-wise, the best Opty to compare against your $300 Xeon is probably the Opty 240 ($191). There is also the 3.2 GHz Xeon with 512 KB L2 & 1 MB L3 for $950. Dualies built around that processor seem to split the benchmarks against the Opty 246 (2 GHz, 1 MB L2). There are many other Opty vs Xeon benchmarks out there. I like this one: http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=60000275 -- Reply to newsgroup only please. This e-mail account is real but effectively abandoned because of excessive spamming. |
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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) |
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