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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (140570)	7/31/2001 3:57:00 PM
From: pgerassi	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Dear Tench: If a server contains one CPU, the ratio of CPU cost to server cost is lower than when more CPUs are in it. Your statement "This goes directly against your claim that CPUs only make up 0.2% to 2% of the total server market." means that if CPUs higher they make up less % of total cost than if there was zero CPUs. That is incorrect as a positive number is always greater than zero, not less. Similarly, "If CPUs are that cheap, there is absolutely no excuse to leave some CPU slots open." (its badly worded and unclear) makes no sense if adding a CPU costs more. If one will never use the performance ever, why does it need to be there? Evidently you belong to the group that adds 100 HP to a truck to allow it to go 100 MPH when the limit was 55 MPH and chew 25% more fuel going 55 MPH, even if the option is only $200 more on a $100K truck. I do not add a huge 8 cylinder engine into my car when a small six goes much faster than I can drive and gets better mileage. The smart truck owners would not add an option that costs them $25 every time they fill up for no gain. So you think a savvy customer would add $9000 to a system of any cost to go from 0.099 second response time over 0.100 seconds instead of adding something else that makes it go to 0.050 seconds or nothing, if the specification calls for a response of 0.25 seconds? How about a system of $150K before the addition? There are even cases where adding a CPU actually slows a system down. Pete