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Originally posted by tdg
I don't get it? The Opteron 148 costs about that much from most retailers.
Originally posted by DocFaustus
BTW, dont post it in the Intel section, that is just asking for trouble. And we all know we get into enough of that around here without openly inviting it.
Originally posted by Tazman2
Dell doesn't like to sell AMDs... now do u get it? =D
Originally posted by SnakEyez187
Dell does not, and won't be selling opterons. this has already happened multiple times with most amd releases, the athlon also shown up like this, and every time dell never actually sold anything
What they don't know is that an Athlon 64 3200+ pretty much beats the hell out if it...for overall less money
Originally posted by freeloader1969
Not according to Michael Dell himself. He always says we're currently "evaluating AMD processors" and "we don't see any evidence to support AMD's current chip line-up" and that's it. He knows damn well that the Athlon 64/Opteron processors are the best on the market right now. Too bad Intel has their *ocks so far up his ass, he's unable to pull away.
Originally posted by CIWS
Intel provides Dell with really good deals on CPU unit costs, most certainly as part of a plan to keep them Intel only. If Dell were to start offereing AMD based systems Intel would almost certainly end the great CPU prices they have been giving them all these years. So Dell would have to make up for lost profit / higher operating costs for the majority of their system sales. I'm sorry but I seriously doubt that their sales of AMD based systems would be able to do that at this point in time. Remember they care about one thing, keeping the stockholders happy and that is acomplished by profit dollars and dividend returns. Part of the reason they also outsourced their tech support to countries like India, to improve the bottom line. It doesn't matter that Michael Dell got his start in Texas / Austin and that Americans were laid off to hire people in foriegn countries simply to improve the bottom line. Like the majority of profitable businesses in the U.S. it's not what makes the most intelligent sense about product offering, it's what ever makes the biggest returns to the shareholders.
Originally posted by xonik
I'm not as much worried about the processors as I am worried about the motherboard, power supply, fans, etc.--anything in the path of the hot air coming from (multiple?) Nocona Xeons. This is especially troublesome in the 1U and 2U solutions that feature dual and quad configurations. I also could imagine problems with thermal throttling kicking in and killing performance, causing class action lawsuits, volcanic eruptions, nuclear fallout, and large scale alien invasions, in particular.
Originally posted by Josh_B
...... Mr. CEO knows about 'ADM', he doesn't care if it's 5% faster - he wants to make sure that his company's website stays up 24/7. Nobody gets fired for buying Intel...
Originally posted by El Nacho
Thats how it works at my job. It just kills me. We have 60+ servers all are Intel, and 40+ of them are dells. On a plus side....we never have a hardware failer...
Originally posted by xonik
I'm not as much worried about the processors as I am worried about the motherboard, power supply, fans, etc.--anything in the path of the hot air coming from (multiple?) Nocona Xeons. This is especially troublesome in the 1U and 2U solutions that feature dual and quad configurations. I also could imagine problems with thermal throttling kicking in and killing performance, causing class action lawsuits, volcanic eruptions, nuclear fallout, and large scale alien invasions, in particular.