Leonardo
F@H Reign of Terror is back!
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10 Sep 2007, 3:40pm
Anandtech has a
first stage assessment up as well. They are not nearly done with testing yet, so are not calling it a review. Definitely not full of praise, but not negative in tone either:
Considering that AMD prices this Opteron 2350 under the Xeon 5345, AMD has an attractive price/performance offering for most applications.
AMD's hopes for power consumption efficiency were on track it, appears:
At idle, the Opteron 2350 platform uses significantly less power than the Xeon setup, a decrease of about 44%. While
Intel will be able to drop its power consumption with the move to 45nm, the impact won't be great enough to close this gap.
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