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Subject: Re: report about my hardware plans

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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