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Claim #3: An equivalent Intel Nehalem server costs almost twice as much as an equivalent AMD Opteron Server.

Reality: This claim is false because there are no equivalent (in performance or power consumption) AMD Opterons compared to Intel Nehalem servers. While AMD based servers are the cheapest, a low end Nehalem server can deliver more performance at a lower price. Table 3 below shows server prices from HP with the base configuration plus second processor.



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