Istanbul Demoed, Let's Drink Soda

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horus never made it tho, afaik it was cancelled... too bad, the idea was great, they had potential...

jacky, yes, i think nehalem will beat even these 6 core opterons, but keep in mind that these are ddr2 and fit into existing infratructure, so you can upgrade the cpus and leave the rest of the server the same, simply boosting the performance. thats a nice feature...
in the end even a performance diference of 20% is still not that important to most customers, they can live with that.
youd be surprised how many companies upgrade old servers even though it barely gives them a boost, but its too time consuming and annoying to switch to a completely new server setup, uprading is usually a plug and play thing, and beeing able to upgrade from 4 slow to 6 fast cores is very nice.