what I see right now is that people are choosing fewer, higher speed, more expensive and more power hungry cores over more, slower, cheaper and more efficient c

what I see right now is that people are choosing fewer, higher speed, more expensive and more power hungry cores over more, slower, cheaper and more efficient cores. Anyone who uses Xeons instead of the new 8 or 12 core opterons has made this choice. Sure, the Xeons kick ass when it comes to single threaded performance, but as far as performance per watt or performance per dollar go, the new socket G34 opterons kick the shit out of the Xeons. For the cost of an 8 core Xeon, I can get a low power 8 core opteron, 32GiB ram, and a nice SuperServer to put it all in.