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When it comes to servers its even more true as you're buying the platform as well as the CPU, the CPU is important to be sure but the platform features are even more so for running the hardware at scale.

A simple example, for a long time you couldn't PXE boot a server from a 10Gb NIC while using AMD chipsets. So every AMD system needed a 1Gb NIC cabled and maintained just to build the server vs a single 10Gb NIC on an Intel platform. That scales out for hundreds of servers now you need a 1Gb fabric and the associated switches etc just to allow you to build your systems.

[Hello71]

That, uh, doesn't sound right. None of your networking equipment can do auto-negotiation?

[_ea1k]

I think that he meant that the workload still required the 10Gb link, so the AMD servers ended up with two NICs and two sets of cables (a 10 Gb connection and a 1 Gb connection). This leads to higher resource requirements, as they need effectively double the # of switches.

I'm not familiar with the problem at all, that is just how I interpreted his statements.