Rainer Duffner wrote:

Tom Brown schrieb:

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Hi

I want to consolidate some machines at home and so i wonder does anyone have any recommendations for a good consumer rather than server mobo+cpu combination that would be able to run paravirt and fullvirt quests ?

Probably depends on how much you want to spend. Core7i will blow everything out of the water, even entry-level Xeons, I believe.... The boards and CPUs are expensive - but you can add a lot of RAM (six sockets instead of four).

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cheap xeon dual or quad core go to intel/or you mobo company website and check out compatibility list per processor/mobo a mini itx server with a dual core xeon 4gb ram 150GB velicoraptor should be around 550 euro, which imho is good value for money ps : you will need centos 5.2 or 5.3beta kernels to make most of the networking run out of the box (or install kmod)

On Tue, Jan 6, 2009 at 6:32 PM, Tom Brown tom@ng23.net wrote:

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Probably depends on how much you want to spend. Core7i will blow everything out of the water, even entry-level Xeons, I believe.... The boards and CPUs are expensive - but you can add a lot of RAM (six sockets instead of four).

OK thanks - from what i have just read about the Core i7 i dont think i'll be going that route as they seem $$ and not many mobo's available.

will keep looking

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We've had great success in using both Intel and Gigabyte motherboard. If your budget is tight, then a mobo with only 2 memory modules (i.e. 4GB max RAM) will work well. And you can use anything from an Intel Core 2 Duo 6750 CPU upwards - well those are the ones that I find the most stable. If you don't need fully virtualization, i.e. don't need the Intel VT technology, then the cheaper CPU's like 2140 and updards will also work well.

For a few extra bucks you could use the Intel desktop motherboard with 4 memory modules to get 8GB RAM, and s ome of them can take up to an Intel XEN 3000 class CPU.