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P.V.Anthony, mused, then expounded: |
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> When is Barcelona coming out? Would it be expensive because it is new |
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> and a true 4 core chip? |
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Initial ship in about two months. It'll cost more, but get the Socket F |
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aka 1207 pin socket if you go AMD. |
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> From reading the posts, it seems that memory is very very important. |
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> Wondering if it is better going with a 2 core cpu and put the savings on |
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> more ram. Originally thinking of 4g. Maybe the ram should go to 8g. |
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Probably best just to start with 4 G. More memory can be added later. |
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On the Intel plaform, get 4 dimms, on the AMD platform 2 dimms is fine. |
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Whichever you get, pay attention to the bios release notes and memory |
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RAS features. You might wany to implement mirroring (doubling the number |
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of dimms) if uptime is important. |
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> Plus it is paranoia. Just afraid that something on the Pentium 4 might |
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> fail. Since it is already two years old. |
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Typically, hard drives - IDE, then SATA, then SAS, and FC, fail first in the |
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described order from most likely to least likely. |
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> P.V.Anthony |
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> PS: going with tyan because from this list, it seems that tyan has good |
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> support for linux. |
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Tyan makes a very good stable product. But there will be issues. There are |
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always issues. I've worked a lot with Intel and SuperMicro recently, and both |
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have strengths and weaknesses. Personally, I'd stick with Tyan or SuperMicro. |
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And if you're going to need remote console access make sure you can return the |
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product if the BMC (Baseband Management Controller) doesn't work well. You'll |
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have to pay for a decent BMC. But one that works is worth every penny. I haven't |
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had the opertunity to work with Tyan's BMC, so I really can't comment on them, |
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but all the others I've used have had issues that needed to be worked out with |
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the vendor, so the fixes are coming along with updated BMC firmware. |
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Bob |
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