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Originally Posted by Wile E
For serious work, I would build a 16c 2p system.
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This is where I laugh. Would you rather get a 8c Xeon that costs 1,300 USD or more (up to 2,000) or would you want a P2 16c AMD Interlagos rig with 32c total? Honestly, because two Interlagos chips will cost just as much as a single 8c Xeon. In normal cases it's a lot of power for any normal user, but someone who does rendering or OLAP might want something like that, but obviously not for overclocking. At this point whatever software you're going to be running clearly likes more threads and how could you turn down 16 more threads for the same price, because for multi-threaded workloads Interlagos shines.
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Originally Posted by gopal
i know they are very expensive but they should no do 1% business they will do .5%
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I think this pisses off all the people who normally wouldn't get an EE chip, so that 1% probably will stay at 1%.