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Chris S wrote: |
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> Greetings, |
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> I am curious. Would people recommend a single Athlon X2 compared to |
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> Dual Opteron at same specs? |
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> ie: |
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> 2 x 248 Opterons (2.2GHz, 1Mb, HT1600) in Tyan Thunder K8SRE (nForce 4 |
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> Pro 2200) or |
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> 1 x 4400+ Athlon X2 (Dualcore 2.2Ghz, 1Mb, HT2000) in Tyan Tomcat K8E |
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> (nForce 4) |
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> 1 x 175 Opteron (Dualcore 2.2GHz, 1Mb, HT1600) in a single socket 940 |
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> pin mainboard |
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> How would they fair as a server? |
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> Cheers, |
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> Chris |
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This sounds like a question to post at alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64 or |
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similar since it hasn't anything to do with Gentoo. |
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That being said, I have a feeling the dual processor machine would blow |
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the dual core machines away for heavily multithreaded apps, though the |
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Athlon 64 X2 might inch past the others when there was only a single |
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thread, but that's only a guess. It sounds like something to ask Tom's |
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Hardware to look into, if they haven't already. The dual Opteron would |
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undoubtedly be the better server. For one thing, a dual Opteron board |
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may well support several times as much RAM as the other boards would. |
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The solitary dual core Opteron would be the next best server, followed |
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by the Athlon X2. They should all make better servers than a single |
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core/processor x86 machine would. Generally speaking, these chips are |
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priced the way they are for a reason. |
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