Charlie White from DigitalVideoEditing.com took HP's latest AMD Opteron for a spin around the digital content creation block. Equipped with 2 dual core AMD Opteron chips (2.8Ghz), NVIDIA Quadro FX3500 256MB graphics card, and 4GB DDR-667 ram, this thing was a speed demon. Charlie ran it against a Dell with an Intel Core 2 Extreme. Now I know what you are thinking, 4 cores vs. 2 cores, no contest. Surprisingly, the Intel chip held it's ground and even beat the AMD chip in all of the After Effects tests. Now with 2 processors, you would expect this machine to be loud, but Charlie says it is whisper quiet. Even quieter than a lot of single-chip set-ups. However, all of this speed and quietness comes at a price. You would most certainly have to be a pro to justify spending the $6,000 for this set-up as tested. Review of HP xw9400 Workstation
Charlie White from DigitalVideoEditing.com took HP's latest AMD Opteron for a spin around the digital content creation block. Equipped with 2 dual core AMD Opteron chips (2.8Ghz), NVIDIA Quadro FX3500 256MB graphics card, and 4GB DDR-667 ram, this thing was a speed demon. Charlie ran it against a Dell with an Intel Core 2 Extreme. Now I know what you are thinking, 4 cores vs. 2 cores, no contest. Surprisingly, the Intel chip held it's ground and even beat the AMD chip in all of the After Effects tests. Now with 2 processors, you would expect this machine to be loud, but Charlie says it is whisper quiet. Even quieter than a lot of single-chip set-ups. However, all of this speed and quietness comes at a price. You would most certainly have to be a pro to justify spending the $6,000 for this set-up as tested. 
