Quote Originally Posted by bowman View Post
If there's a store beyond a friend's friend's discarded server equipment that sells Opteron Barcelonas for 500kr I would like a link.. But I'm guessing you got a 'special deal' here.



He doesn't mean performance, he means price. You can't compare two CPUs to one CPU because the price difference between a UP platform vs. a DP platform, Nehalem or not, is massive.

Perhaps the diagrams should've counted both cores and threads so we'd avoid this bickering?
Pretty sure he got them on eBay. Pre-B3 Barcelonas are being dumped on eBay at pretty attractive prices. You can easily get an Opteron 2347 or 2344 HE for $100.

Heck looking now you can also buy 4x Opteron 8346 for $150 each. That would make a pretty interesting setup.