I believe I found the answer why Magny Cours was priced so low, less than 1k for the top high end part. The reasons is more than obvious when you look at the performance : it is bound to suck and cost a lot SW wise. Considering that for a lot of SW your license fee is proportional with the number of cores, that doesn't help either.


SpecInt_RateBase2006:
2s/6c Xeon 5680(3.33) = 355.
4s/6c/ Opteron 8439 SE(2.8 ) = 328.

SpecFP_RateBase2006:
2s/6c Xeon 5680(3.33) = 248.
4s/6c/ Opteron 8439 SE(2.8 ) = 261.
4s/6c/ Opteron 8435 (2.6) = 248.

Java SPECjbb_2005
2s/6c Xeon 5680(3.33) = 928393.
4s/6c/ Opteron 8439 SE(2.8 ) = 1045732.
4s/6c/ Opteron 8435 (2.6) = 926697.