[CentOS] dual xeon

Tarun Reddy treddy at rallydev.com
Wed Aug 24 15:28:32 UTC 2005


On Aug 24, 2005, at 9:12 AM, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

> Ian mu wrote:
>
>
>> Can't comment on the performance aspect as haven't tested an Opteron
>> setup, but I've typically not gone for them myself as it seems  
>> hard to
>> find a decent place (in the uk anyway) that supplies them as cheap
>> prebuilt rackservers with after sales cover. I could build them  
>> myself
>> cheaper, but I can buy xeon servers cheaper prebuilt especially if
>> after sales service wanted.
>>
>> That may just be my experience and I don't know any places where
>> others buy their opteron servers from though, but I always find this
>> one odd. Guessing might just be some of the bigger companies selling
>> have better deals with intel, or just don't want to go down the
>> opteron route?
>>
>> Any recommended suppliers that also do cover (don't think Dell do
>> opterons do they?)
>>
>> On 8/24/05, Peter Farrow <peter at farrows.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> I agree,
>>>
>>> Dual opterons are better and cheaper than Chipzilla's Xeons...
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Bards1888 wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Joeffrey Betita wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> hello people we will be buying dual xeon processor for our server
>>>>> what iso
>>>>> image should i download? thank you very much.
>>>>>
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>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> It may be too late but have you considered dual opterons instead of
>>>> the Xeons ? Opterons are *true*server CPUs and are implemented in a
>>>> server centric architectiure unlike the Xeon which is basically  
>>>> a P4
>>>> that can do SMP.
>>>>
>>>> For typical server workloads you'll notice a big benefit with the
>>>> opterons.
>>>>
>>>> All the best.
>>>>
>>>>
>
>
> If you can tolerate mail order, try www.monarch.com ....
>

I think you meant http://www.monarchcomputer.com





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