Intel To Price Itanium 2 Servers Around $41,000

[NFS4]

I'll take a Porsche Boxster

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020614S0022

 

[LikeLinus]

Four-processor system running at 1 GHz, with 32 Gbytes of RAM, and a 3-Mbyte on-die memory cache.
Whoa

 

[Adul]

not to bad actually.

 

[Pariah]

That's a ridiculous amount of computing power for that much. The competition would cost you 4 times more and up for an similar system. Intel is turning into the AMD of the server market. Well... pre-Northwood AMD anyway.

 

[human2k]

Wut? Intel is going to build and sell these servers? I thought dell did the selling for them.

 

[shabby]

Dude, your getting a friggin expensive dell.

 

[ElFenix]

intel makes a recommended spec and dell builds to that i guess

 

[D-Man]

Well the real question is can you overclock the thing.

 

[joohang]

Way out of my price range but it was never targeted for wimps like me any ways.

I want Hammer!

 

[sharkeeper]

That's a ridiculous amount of computing power for that much.

You know it seems that way from the outside...

But once you write that check and you turn things up you get rocked into reality! Yes it works, and yes you can do more work. Overclockers already know what I'm talking about! This rule applies to ANYTHING. No matter how strong it is, no matter how many things it holds, as soon as you put it to USE, it's already filled to capacity running at 100% and you scream for more.

Time to shoot the clock! Do away with the system clock, it's archaic. There's something new on the horizon folks!

It's loooooooooooong overdue.

Cheers!

 

[dullard]

Originally posted by: NFS4
I'll take a Porsche Boxster

http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020614S0022

Well that price can give us a real good price on the Itanium 2 processor. Dell sells a quad 800 MHz Itanium with 4 MB cache for $36,000 and 1 GB of SDRAM. The quad Itanium 2 is just $5,000 more - which we can assume only the processor price caused the increase. Thus the 1 GHz Itanium 2 with 3 MB cache will cost about $1250 more than the 800 MHz Itanium with 4 MB cache. $1250 + $4227 = $5477. I honestly thought they would keep the $4227 price tag, but they didn't increase it by much. $5000 for double the server performance is quite an improvement.

Edit: Sorry I missed the 32 GB of RAM part. If you add in the price of 64 512MB modules of SDRAM, that will take care of that $5000. Then the Itanium 2 pricing is right around the $4227 pricing of the Itanium.