Quote Originally Posted by duploxxx View Post
now who's naive here , I don't give a what your company has written on a so called L,E,W,X serie which is rated at a certain TDP. Those TDP/ACP figures changed into a marketing sales argument with retared ratings, for me that is something a hardware vendor should take care about to calculate system air flow, electronics etc. Perhaps your company could add additional star rating for your server cpu's just like in your stupid consumer brand logo's

I don't care what OEM company A rates as total system power or B, wouldn't even think of a fact that would drive me to distribute other vendors just for that, have any idea what a world wide service organisation means? All we need to know what that total system is expected to consume on idle and max load for BTU calculations and power calculation. What kind of cpu we will take will not be depending on TDP or decided by again marketing hyped spec calculations although those are good indicators, that is where those spec and manipulated compilers end.

Again try to be neutral, For a certain OEM with the same server platform type but different cpu manufacturer they do calculations on power consumption then you can take conclusions what they are really consuming.
Those vendors should be neutral on that! accept for the fact that there are always people who give certain rebates to buy and sell crap remember?

Weather or not a certain system is more powerfull, gets more don in a certain time, less total cost or wathever is another discussion, you dragged in the basic powerconsumption linked to TDP.
Now since there's no PHD behind my name but instead almost 45 years of working out in the real world here's a common sense way to end all these arguments over whose system draws what,when and under what load:
Buy a damned $20.00 Kill-A-Watt like I did, plug into wall, turn on machine, record the numbers on the little LED at idle, run it up to 50% load, record again, run to 100% load, record again. Shut down machine, test next machine, compare numbers, toss in the variable as to machines capabilities, and bingo, decision made..
Cut's right thru everyone's claims and settles all..
Numbers don't lie, marketing depts on all companies at the very least bend the hell out of the facts and quite often lie thru their teeth.