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by anigbrowl 5896 days ago
Or you could just spend it on a second AMD machine. Intel certainly leads on raw power but that's certainly not the only consideration...is the Intel brand worth 3x the price after you normalize for performance? I think AMD will sell a ton of these.
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The power consumption of two AMD machines over their lifespans, compared to that one Intel machine, might be an issue though I've not run any calculations.
For a server farm, that is definitely a big issue. for office computers (not maxed out most of the time), the difference is pretty marginal IMHO.
3x the price after you normalize for performance

The relationship of price and performance is not linear.