[CentOS] SuperMicro X7DBE with CentOS4?

> Is there any reason you're locked into Xeon/FB-DIMM?  SuperMicro makes 
> many rather nice Opteron boards, with good ol' DDR SDRAM.  And there 
> aren't many areas where Xeon outperforms Opteron these days, if any.

This is especially true in multi-processor setups.  Intel uses an SMP 
setup with a single I/O controller for the memory which means that only 
1 processor can be accessing memory at a time.  AMD uses a NUMA 
architecture with a dedicated I/O controller for each processor.

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