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It is not real clear to me whether or not the disk subsystems are necessarily equal here. Not all 15K scsi drives are created equal, and not all controllers perform the same either. They obviously cut some corners here to get the storage cost down. It would be nice if we could see a system from the same vendor with the exact same configuration except for the processor/MB combo. That would give us some real data for comparison. Too bad we'll probably never see this. Someone else pointed out the Opteron in that system is only an 844, which is now 2 models below AMD's top model 848. 2.8Ghz is still the top Xeon for a 4P configuration, right? I'm not trying to bash them. I know Intel has plans here to vastly improve its lineup with Prescott based servers. I do wonder how AMD is going to stack up in this area next year. I don't expect Intel to snooze forever.

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