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. >>>>>> >>>>>> _______________________________________________ >>>>>> 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. Indeed I did, I typed it in rather than drag-&-drop, sorry about that & thanks for the correction :-). -- William A. Mahaffey III --------------------------------------------------------------------- Remember, ignorance is bliss, but willful ignorance is LIBERALISM !!!!