> AMD 64 X2 serves the same purpose as single chip > Opteron and it is > much cheaper - why waste the money on it? :)
Because Opteron is supposed to be faster than X2, and it can something X2 can't do -- scale beyond two CPUs. And while I can shut a blind eye to that, you can't get a 1U-compatible SERVER motherboard for an X2, because AMD wants to see X2s in the PC-bucket of an average plant, not inside of servers, where they percieve they can make bigger profit margins with Opterons (which are currently overpriced for that exact reason). This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list opensolaris-discuss@opensolaris.org
