Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Is there any reason you're locked into Xeon/FB-DIMM? SuperMicro makes many rather nice Opteron boards, with good ol' DDR SDRAM. And there aren't many areas where Xeon outperforms Opteron these days, if any.
Not really, can you recommend a comparable Opteron MB? I need PCI-X 133 for the raid card, capability of at least 32MB RAM, and preferably onboard video and LAN.
if you want to stay with Supermicro, go
http://www.supermicro.com/aplus/
You'll find some nice motherboard there.
I'm proving one in right now -- so I can't comment on it status (yet).
Rich
On 6/20/06, Bowie Bailey Bowie_Bailey@buc.com wrote:
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Is there any reason you're locked into Xeon/FB-DIMM? SuperMicro makes many rather nice Opteron boards, with good ol' DDR SDRAM. And there aren't many areas where Xeon outperforms Opteron these days, if any.
Not really, can you recommend a comparable Opteron MB? I need PCI-X 133 for the raid card, capability of at least 32MB RAM, and preferably onboard video and LAN.
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On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 at 5:53pm, Bowie Bailey wrote
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Is there any reason you're locked into Xeon/FB-DIMM? SuperMicro makes many rather nice Opteron boards, with good ol' DDR SDRAM. And there aren't many areas where Xeon outperforms Opteron these days, if any.
Not really, can you recommend a comparable Opteron MB? I need PCI-X 133 for the raid card, capability of at least 32MB RAM, and preferably onboard video and LAN.
I'll assume you meant 32GB RAM. ;) In that case, your options become a bit more limited. SM doesn't have any 2 socket Opteron boards with 16 DIMM slots -- they have at most 4 slots/socket. So, to stick with SM, you'd have to either go with 4GB sticks (which, I'm guessing, may well be as pricy as FB-DIMM per GB) or go to a 4 socket board. Either way, you may not get much cost savings, but you'll still likely get a performance boost.
The other option is to go with Tyan. They have the S3892, a dual socket board with 16 DIMM slots.
As an aside, 3ware now has a PCIe version (the 9590SE) in addition to the PCI-X 9550.
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