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...