[geeks] Sun to adopt newest Intel Xeon chips for upcoming servers (link)

[Joshua Boyd]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 01:10:00PM -0500, Charles Shannon Hendrix wrote:

> So, I've sold off my socket 754 system and got a socket 939 system with
> a dual core Opteron CPU.
> 
> An Intel Core 2 system would have been $200 more, and I was unable to
> see $200 worth of performance advantage.
> 
> I'm on a budget and I was able to re-use most of my old system, so I'm
> pretty happy with what I got.
> 
> Life on the trailing edge doesn't have to be slow... :)

Trailing edge?  I just upgraded to a spiffy dual 1.2ghz P3.  For the
most part it is a mighty fine upgrade to the dual 550mhz machine, except
for the onboard video isn't so snappy, so the old machine is still
around in case I want to use it for more graphics intensive tasks.

What were you saying about enjoying being on the trailing edge?

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