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Subject: Re: Opteron Specifics

Author: Joachim Rang

Date: 09:06:37 07/01/03

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On July 01, 2003 at 09:15:42, Rajen Gupta wrote:

>
>>Funny how the 844's are $2149, but yet still WAY cheaper than the Xeon-MP's and
>>Itanium 2's. And the Opterons own them.
>
>whom does opteron own? certainly not the customers; they are all owned by intel!
>
>It is extremely funny how AMD has to sell these processors at throw away prices
>to attract customers; funny only for intel though as they are confident tht
>customers will pay top dollar for intel products which are actually cheaper to
>manufacture than AMD processors; but its not fumnny for AMD and not for
>customers either as these are only virtual prices as AMD is unble to ramp up
>clock speeds; (the best AMD can do is 2.167mhz; the AMD 2800+(non-barton which
>is actuallu the fastest AMD processor for chess can't be had for love or for
>money!
>

who cares if an opteron at 1.8 Ghz is as fast as a Xeon on 3 Ghz?

>meanwhile intel is going from strength to strength!



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