Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:44:57 06/22/04
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On June 22, 2004 at 09:20:06, Joachim Rang wrote: >On June 22, 2004 at 09:01:03, Uri Blass wrote: > >>I think to buy the opteron248 or opteron250(if possible) from >>www.compu21.co.il(I go for 2 in order to be able to add one processor in the >>future) >> >>There are some problems: >> >>1)There is no confidence that I can get the hardware before the beginning of >>WCCC. >> >>2)I am the only buyer of that hardware in Israel and amd has not it in the stock >>so the company will invite the parts from USA and they expect to get it in 4 >>days from the day that I order. >> >>3)It is the first time that this computer is built by that company and I cannot >>be sure how much time it is going to take them to build the computer. >> >>4)there is only limited responsibility for the computer(not like the case when I >>buy something from IBM). >> >>The price of the computer is at least 3500$ but I do not pay it in one payement >>so there is going to be no problem with it. >> >>I remember that people claimed that the athlon64 is cheaper solution but based >>on looking at the price of the processor it seems that the price of the good >>athlon is high so there is probably not a big difference and I do not see that I >>can get a computer that is 10% slower for significantly smaller price. >> > >Opteron 248 (clocked at 2.2 GHz) $ 690 >AMD Athlon 64 3400+ (clocked at 2.2 GHz) $ 417 http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_609,00.html I see 799$ for the athlon(not athlon XP) in this table when the opteron is cheaper. Uri
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