On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:24 AM, John R Pierce <pierce at hogranch.com> wrote: > Core I7 is the branding for the desktop CPU family. The Server > processors are branded Xeon 5500 and 5600 (for dual socket servers) and > Xeon 7000 for 4+ socket servers. Typically, desktop processors go with > desktop motherboards which don't support ECC memory, probably don't have > remote management features, likely don't readily support redundant > power, and often have only a single NIC onboard. A server board will > likely have significantly more IO bandwidth, oriented towards network > and disk IO rather than graphics. > > IMHO, the dual socket 5600 family is the sweet spot of price/performance > for a VM host, with 2 x 6 cores, and typically 12 memory slots (2x3 per > CPU). populate the memory with 6 matching DIMMs for best performance. > > > _______________________________________________ Yet the server vendors ship servers, with server chassis, hardware RAID, redundant power supplies, etc & offer Core i7 options. How does that work? -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532