On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Alan Hodgson <ahodgson at simkin.ca> wrote: > On September 16, 2010 10:23:15 am Rudi Ahlers wrote: >> But I'm convinced now that XEON's would be better even though they're >> far more expensive. And at the same time our older Pentium IV, >> Core2Duo & Core2Quad machines work as well as our XEON machines, but >> at much cheaper prices - which translates to more money being >> available to other hardware / services / marketing / etc. > > They're not that much more expensive, at least for the dual-socket boards. And > you get a lot better I/O and memory bandwidth from real server boards. > > The 6 core Xeons are still kinda pricey though. > > Supermicro also makes fine server boards and a great range of rack-mount > chassis, including blades, for much cheaper than, say, HP. > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Alan, I am using server boards..... -- Kind Regards Rudi Ahlers SoftDux Website: http://www.SoftDux.com Technical Blog: http://Blog.SoftDux.com Office: 087 805 9573 Cell: 082 554 7532