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. >>>>> >>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>> CentOS mailing list >>>>> CentOS at centos.org >>>>> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> 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