Re: Dupal Opteron on Sarge
I cannot reccommend AMD enough. I've had a Athlon1400 for the past 4
years or so, and it's still outperforming most of the lower-end
pentium fours. Now I have a nice shiny new Athlon64 3000+, and it's
really nice and fast. If you want to get an opteron, I'd really
reccommend, if you have the money, the Tyan S4882UG2NR K8QS PRO Quad
Opteron/SCSI/SATA/2GL/SSI MEB Motherboard. It's obscenely pricey, but
it could power your entire enterprise and participate in compile farm
events at the same time, with power to spare. If you really want
obliterating power, go for one of the boards that supports the
dual-core opterons. AMD really had fun with their dual core, look at
http://www.amd.com/us-en/Processors/ProductInformation/0,,30_118_9485,00.html
for proof. I'm not kidding, you're gonna get a whole heck of a lotta
bang for your buck, even if you're only running a single dual core
opteron. Load 'er up with about 2GB ram, a couple SATAII drives in
RAID 0+1 mode, and you've got the dream server right there. I'm
really not joking. the only problem with 64bit is that amd64 debian
support is still hiding in the testing/unstable areas, so you won't
find any "official" release, which means you have to dig a bit, but
it's there. I really hope you choose AMD, because they've done so
well for me... I even have a Intel machine (pentium M 1.0 GHz, 256mb
RAM) that was absolutely obliterated by my 1400... I can't say enough
for AMD. You'll certainly get your money's worth if you buy AMD. If
you like, just gimme a price cap and I can go hunt for the precise
hardware you'd want. I'd even offer to build it for you, but you'd
have to be nuts to trust a total stranger like me :)
I hope you find a solution soon!
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