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From: Dale <dalek@××××××××××.net>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron
Date: Tue, 03 Jan 2006 01:16:50
Message-Id: 43B9CEA1.1030303@exceedtech.net
In Reply to: [OT] Dual-Opteron (was: Re: [gentoo-user] A few (gentoo-newbie) questions (mainly about binary packages)) by "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr."
1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
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5 >As the owner of a dual-Opteron 275 system, I can say they they are very
6 >nice. An emerge -e world (700+ packages) only takes 24 hours, during
7 >which the system is totally usable (full-screen video + 5.1 audio does not
8 >stutter).
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14 No offense but my main rig does about that. It's just a AMD 2500+ with
15 1GB of ram, running at 2GHz though. I was thinking about building me a
16 new rig but if I won't see any more improvement than that, I'll spend my
17 money somewhere else, maybe some glasses for a start. O_O
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19 Dale
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21 Still sleepy, going back to bed. -_- <---- < closed eyes > LOL
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24 To err is human, I'm most certainly human.
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26 I have four rigs:
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28 1: Home built; Abit NF7 ver 2.0 w/ AMD 2500+ CPU, 1GB of ram and right now two 80GB hard drives. Named Smoker
29 2: Home built; Iwill KK266-R w/ AMD 1GHz CPU, 256MBs of ram and a 4GB drive. Named Swifty
30 3: Home built; Gigabyte GA-71XE4 w/ 800MHz CPU, 224MBs of ram and a 2.5GB drive. Named Pokey
31 4: Compaq Proliant 6000 Server w/ Quad 200MHz CPUs, 128MBs of ram and a 4.3GB SCSI drive. Named Putput
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33 All run Gentoo Linux, all run folding. #1 is my desktop, 2, 3, and 4 are set up as servers.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] Dual-Opteron Jerry McBride <mcbrides9@×××××××.net>