[CentOS] dual xeon

Wed Aug 24 19:17:10 UTC 2005
William A. Mahaffey III <wam at HiWAAY.net>

Tarun Reddy wrote:

>
> 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.


Indeed I did, I typed it in rather than drag-&-drop, sorry about that & 
thanks for the correction :-).

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