On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:37:39 -0400 Greg Folkert <greg@gregfolkert.net> wrote: > On Sun, 2004-08-15 at 05:40 -0700, William Ballard wrote: > > I'm totally pavlovian, saw a review of Dual Xeon vs. Dual Opteron on > > > > Infoworld and now I want to buy another computer. Probably won't. > > > > I currently have P43.2 1GB, and it's overclocked. But video > > encoding still takes hours and mozilla compile still takes a while. > > > > I'd like something with 2-4 CPUs and 2-4 GB of RAM, won't put a > > fancy graphics card in it or play games. Might render some 3D. I > > don't really want a whole workstation or expect to use it > > interactively. > > > > Xeons are just massively overpriced. Athlon 64 seems like the way > > to go. I see newegg has 1GBx1 PC3200 at $200 -- do you think I'd > > ever get 4 sticks of that in a single motherboard? In theory I > > could get two not top-of-the-line Athlon 64s and 4GB of PC3200 and a > > case and a hard drive for a bit over $2000, would this suit me? > > > > Would it be worth it? > > Yes. For a computing machine. > > The Dual and Quad Opteron system usually have either 8 or 16 Memory > slots. > > Recently, I setup a Quad Opteron fastest available speed. Infiniband, > Dual 1000Mbit Ethernet, 10GB of Memory, 3Ware Sata local storage... Where did you find a motherboard that could handle 4 processors? They seem to be extremely rare these days, in my experience. Thanks, Jacob -- GnuPG Key: 1024D/16377135 Random .signature #51: Windows 2000, Users 0
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