Quote Originally Posted by Hornet331 View Post
but thats the thing we dont know, we dont know the pricing of xeon procs, and as i mentioned eralier, if intel releases a 2,4ghz gainestown that slightly undercuts DP opterons in price the whole comparisson between singel socket and dual socket makes even less sense.

Bloomfield is a highend desktop chip and not aimed at servers thats why we have Xeon.
Why should a company buy a bloomfield rig (where the procs costs 1000€ alone) when they can get 2 gainestown procs (lets asume 400€ wach) for a lower price which perform a lot better in multithreaded apps (thought they are clocked lower, lats say at 2,4ghz) and simply crush bloomfield?
Wich is why i said this:
Guys.. Lets compare prices when they're out, and then the whole systems...
on page 35..

I think the price/perf comparison would be most relevant to small companies/ WS market, rather than the big companies looking for servers.