> You're not going to be able to get a Dual Athlon MP for the same price > as a single Xeon. A few years back, this was the case because Xeon CPUs > & MBs had a huge premium over Athlon. This is no longer true mainly > because the number of people carrying Athlon MP motherboards has dropped > down drastically. Go to pricewatch.com and do a search for 760MPX -- you > get a mere 8 entries. Not surprisingly because who would not want to > spend a few pennies more for a much superior Dual Opteron? The few > sellers you see now just keep stuff in inventory for people who need > replacement parts for emergencies and are willing to pay up the nose > because it is an emergency.
I saw pricewatch.com and you're right. I looked for some benchmarks, and I would know if I'm right on: - Dual Opteron 246 have aproximately the same performance of a Dual Xeon 3Gh (Opteron a little better) - Opteron system equal or cheeper than Xeon system. As I'm not a hardware expert I would know if my impressions were right. Thanx, Raoul ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 2: you can get off all lists at once with the unregister command (send "unregister YourEmailAddressHere" to [EMAIL PROTECTED])