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I am curious where are you getting the 8000+ CPW (commercial processing
workload) rating for a PC? CPW is not the same as CPU speed. I do know
my model 520 with 3,800 CPW rating running lots of concurrent services
and applications will outperform a quad-core PC server running just MS
SQL Server. We have an application that runs on a PC and makes
connections to both DB2 and MSSQL and reads data from both and the 520
responds quicker that the PC server.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Tuesday, April 10, 2007 12:59 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: IBM will announce two new System i models, 515 and 525 on
Apr. 10.

On 4/10/07, Lukas Beeler <l.beeler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It's 800 CPW. The CPU can be bumped to 3800 CPW, no idea how much that
costs, though.


well, a 25% price/performance increase. Compared to PC servers more
than doubling in performance in the last year with the release of quad
core CPUs
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=2+50001157+4
0000343+1389627503+1302825342&name=Quad-Core

If the idea is to compete with Windows Server in a 5 user setting, 800
CPW vs 8000+ in a PC server is not a fair fight.

-Steve

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