[Gllug] Best option for a lot of compute power

Martin A. Brooks martin at clues.ltd.uk
Mon Jun 7 09:21:40 UTC 2004


Hi Tethys,

On Monday, June 7, 2004, Tethys wrote:


> Considering the price, I'd say it was a bargain. The chips are around
> the same price as AMD64, but motherboards are about 65% cheaper.

Last time I checked, a 3ghz xeon with HT and 1mb cache would have set
you back about £500.  A 2ghz opteron chip (which will keep up with a
xeon quite cheerfully) with the same cache will set you back about
£300.

Unless intel have done some price slashing that I haven't noticed, of
course.

Regards

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