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Jeff Layton wrote:
> Dow,
> 
>   For your applications at work, I would definitely stick with
> Opteron. The I2 is really a floating-point only box and
> not that great at it (the Opteron is pretty dam close to it).
> Beside the I2 is something like 3 times the cost of the Opteron.
>   If I remember correctly, the I2 boxes also suffer from
> memory bandwidth issues like the Xeon for SMP boxes.
> That is, they share the memory bandwidth. Of course, the
> Opteron CPUs on an SMP box get full access to the memory
> bandwidth.
>   Besides, even HP is now selling Opterons. I've also seen
> rumors that Dell is selling Opterons! Perhaps my ice skates
> for Hell will come in handy.
> 
> Jeff
> 
>> Jonathon,
>> Would you be more specific?  Are these Itanium2 chips versus Opterons 
>> of what speeds?  What code are you running?  Are they single, dual or 
>> clustered? Thanks since we are in the running to purchase something 
>> along these lines,
>> Dow
>>
>>
>> Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
>>
>>> I'm liking the performance I see out of my Opteron boxes.  They're
>>> holding their own with my Itanium boxes, but they're much more
>>> affordable.  :)  Of course, your budget may vary!
>>> Jonathan
>>>
>>> On Mon, 2004-03-29 at 10:45, Robert L. Harris wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Next month (late april probably) I'm looking to get a new
>>>> Desktop/Workstation for home.  I've been pointed at a P4 with HT, SATA
>>>> drives by a co-worker.  Anyone else have any suggestions?  Right now 
>>>> I'm
>>>> looking at a Dell due to cost but I wouldn't mind paying a bit more to
>>>> support someone local.  Of course it'll be a Linux/Win dual-boot.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> :wq!
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>>>>
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