steven n fettig wrote:
The real point or core question is whether the Opteron is worth it in
performance terms. I've always liked AMD as the underdog, but here I
really need bang for the buck on what I'm doing and if the bang isn't
there, it's not worth it for me.
http://www.anandtech.com/IT/showdoc.aspx?i=1935&p=9
http://www17.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/opteron-17.html
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=55000261
Once you compare the prices, getting the Opteron machines becomes pretty
obvious. At work, an application owner said he needed a 4-way box for
Peoplesoft and Websphere. I priced out an HP DL585, came to about $17k.
One of the users said that Websphere wouldn't run on an AMD (he lied),
but to be reasonable I priced out a 4-way DL580, it came to $32k. When
faced with paying double just to get an Intel, all of a sudden Websphere
ran just fine on an AMD. Personally, I'd take two DL585s over one DL580
any day.
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