Personally I'd go for the 6344, or perhaps the 6238, but in general I agree; comparable Intel systems are ridiculously over-priced.
Erik On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 9:07 PM, Rémi Coulom <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > We are considering investing into some high-end tournament hardware for Crazy > Stone. It has to be a single machine. > > Right now, I am considering a server such as this one: > http://www.thinkmate.com/System/RAX_QS5-4410 > With 4 x Sixteen-Core AMD Opteron™ Model 6386 SE (2.8 GHz) > > It seems that Intel alternatives with a similar price are much less powerful. > Is there anything I am missing? > > I checked that the clock efficiency of our Intel server is 1.4 better than > our AMD bulldozer. I expect that hyperthreading does not help very much > because of scalability problems, but I am not so sure. > > Any recommendation would be welcome. > > Thanks, > > Rémi > _______________________________________________ > Computer-go mailing list > [email protected] > http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go _______________________________________________ Computer-go mailing list [email protected] http://dvandva.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/computer-go
