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sobriqueJust had a presentation from some dude about HP proliant servers.
Looks like AMD/Opteron is totally outclassing Intel. It would seem they _can_ do dualcore, maybe, sometime soon, but for a ninja bastard machine you pay half as much for crunching power, and lose badly on the memory IO race.
Clickly clicky, Alienware says for £3500 (OK, just over 2k if I don't go for dual drives, extra memory, that kind of thing), I can have a dual, dualcore opteron system, with assorted bells and whistles.
Which is nice. Anyone else know of places that do 'build to order' or 'ninja' spec PC builds?
(Yes, I'm aware of the possibilities of build my own, but for various reasons a whole thing strikes me as a good plan)
Looks like AMD/Opteron is totally outclassing Intel. It would seem they _can_ do dualcore, maybe, sometime soon, but for a ninja bastard machine you pay half as much for crunching power, and lose badly on the memory IO race.
Clickly clicky, Alienware says for £3500 (OK, just over 2k if I don't go for dual drives, extra memory, that kind of thing), I can have a dual, dualcore opteron system, with assorted bells and whistles.
Which is nice. Anyone else know of places that do 'build to order' or 'ninja' spec PC builds?
(Yes, I'm aware of the possibilities of build my own, but for various reasons a whole thing strikes me as a good plan)
