Expensive Quad Sockets vs. Ubiquitous Dual Sockets | Opteron & Xeon Compared

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Even at 10% diff it's not enough to make up for 20% better perf/watt.


Wow, so 2 SAS drives @15W each (what you think it's 5W? It's not 60W but it is a drop of 30W), who knows what RAM...hmmm, why should we care? To put AMD in better light?
Accept it, while the 24 core AMD system does better in performance only, it doesn't stack up in perf/watt.

And unless I missed some shopping sites, a SINGLE Opteron 8435 is more expensive than TWO X5570!
Opty 8435: $2650
http://www.google.com/products?q=AMD...8435&scoring=p
Xeon 5570: $1330
http://www.google.com/products?q=Int...5570&scoring=p
Quad-socket AMD mobos are not ice-cream cheap either, while Dual Nehalem boards peanuts compared to that.

Even space is not in AMD's favor, since Nehalems can fit in much less than a quad-socket AMD system.
There's not really a single point in Istanbul from above.

then your mind is to narrow (or just no idea about server world) to understand that there are actually a lot of places where 4s are preferred over 2s and IT business don't buy the fastest cpu from a linup unless it is for few very dedicated sw parts.

and those prices are total rip off, idiots who would buy those online or from oem without discount.

what about space, it's only 1-2-4u there are several 4s available in 2u, but most of the time they are bought for the many full height pci-e lanes, something which isn't available in 2u.