Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[pgerassi]

Chipguy, how wrong you are!

Every Xeon system with 16GB of memory has a lower result than a 2S Opteron 2384. The Opteron 2384 system got 860 while the best Xeon (2.8GHz) only got 854 using IBM's JRE vs Opteron's BEA JRockit. The highest Xeon (3GHz) using BEA's JRockit was the 778 from HP's DL180. The only higher result Xeons were using a desktop chipset, not a server one, using DDR2 in some form in a 4GB or 8GB configuration.

Of course to match using the faster lower power desktop memory, wait for Opteron 137x and 138xs or Deneb based Phenoms with PC2-6400 and PC2-8500 memory. As for DP Nehalem, it has slipped into 2009. How far is anyone's guess at this point. When, and if, it arrives, we shall see at that point. At least Shanghai is a hard launch with systems arriving in customer's hands before the official launch.