On Sunday 20 March 2005 17:55, Bob Beck wrote:
> Opterons give me a big woody. My Opterons destroy comparably
> (or faster) clocked xeons.
>
Pure poetry =)
/Tony
> Find an Opteron dude. Intel is evil.
>
> -Bob
>
> * steven n fettig <openbsd@stevenfettig.com> [2005-03-20 00:58]:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I caught a killer deal for an HP DL145 rack mount server with a 1.6 GHz
> > Opteron not really thinking about what I was buying at the time because
> > I needed a replacement server immediately for a customer and that was
> > the only one in stock in my price range (got it for $600). Now I'm
> > looking for a few more rackmounts similar to the DL145 and have a bit of
> > sticker shock after seeing current prices for said rack mounted servers
> > (the cheapest DL145 I can find now is around $1000) - okay, "sticker
> > shock" is a bit of an exaggeration, but I am looking for something in
> > the $600-$800 range.
> > The question is whether I should shop around and find an Opteron based
> > system I'm comfortable with or simply buy something with a Xeon DP in it
> > - or hell, even a regular Xeon. These systems will be used for some
> > light http and some heavy perl/mysql webserving stuff (100 low traffic
> > websites per machine, but some using blogging software like
> > MovableType). I would also like to replace a DP PIV 2.8 Dell Precision
> > I'm using as an email server for 400 pop/imap email accounts (running
> > qmail/vpopmail/courier-imap) with a rackmount for space saving reasons.
> > The real point or core question is whether the Opteron is worth it in
> > performance terms. I've always liked AMD as the underdog, but here I
> > really need bang for the buck on what I'm doing and if the bang isn't
> > there, it's not worth it for me.
> >
> > Any comments?
> >
> > snf
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