[CentOS] dual xeon

William A. Mahaffey III wam at HiWAAY.net
Wed Aug 24 15:12:05 UTC 2005


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:
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>>>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.
>>>      
>>>


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