I would like to see a comparison showing the Opteron and Xeon vs the X2's and 6x00's. Just about every comparison I've ever seen will show the first two against each other (server class chips) and the last two against each other (desktop class chips) but they rarely ever show the server class vs. the desktop class machines.
Then consider that you can have mutli-core multi-processor chip server machines but they never do a direct comparison.
At a minimum I would like to see a comparison of a dual-processor Opteron 265/2210 (which is dual core, so two chips and two processors each) vs the Intel E6700/5000V series processors. The Intel 5000 processors are dual-core Xeon's and dual-processor also.
Even more interested would be to throw in a 4-way and an 8-way Opteron board. The 8-way board has four more chips on top of the 4-way board.
Dave.
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