> I’m not sure what you mean when you reference CapEx ... When I talk about CapEx, I'm talking about the portion of the whole server's CapEx represented by the

> I’m not sure what you mean when you reference CapEx ... When I talk about CapEx, I'm talking about the portion of the whole server's CapEx represented by the Nitro hardware cost, including amortized Nitro development cost. CapEx + OpEx is the normal way to account for "total cost" of the new hardware, which can be compared against CapEx + OpEx fraction of the server's cost that can be attributed to the Intel / AMD CPUs. Likewise for OpEx, I'm talking about the portion of the whole server's OpEx represented by the Nitro hardware operating cost. They've offloaded 30% of the work to this new hardware, and there are two obvious ways to look at if this was a good idea: (1, evaluating monetary savings) is the cost (CapEx + OpEx) of this Nitro hardware less than that of the 30% of the box's CPU resources freed up? (2, evaluating environmental savings) is the wattage used by this Nitro hardware less than the 30% of the box's CPU resources freed up?