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Intel Xeon X7560: Nehalem EX Review

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Am I missing something here... is it not completely pointless comparing the numbers when they tested with 4 of the new X7560s and only 2 of everything else [save for the X7460]?
 
It is impressive. But you could build a dozen basic i7 920 rigs for that money... that would give a lot more than 115kppd!
 
No no no. What REALLY impresses the ladies is the electricity bill.

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If you had two dual opteron servers you'd probably get similar performance scores instead of this daft 4 intel vs 2 AMD cpu server comparison. But you wouldn't have to have your own substation in the garden to run your folding farm.
 
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The only reason they didn't do quad opterons is that there isn't a motherboard out yet that will take them :)
 
Sun have a X4640 server that takes 8 6-core Opterons. That's 48 cores! I priced one up with 384GB of RAM for a project and it was only $140K. Bargain really!
 
That looks like one hell of a lot of heat to dissipate as well. Does it come with free ear defenders?

Mind you, it turns out that each X7560 has about the same TDP as a GTX 480. So how many people here are going to need their own substation then? :p
 
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