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Re: [OT] Sensible Dual/Quad w/ Lots of Ram System



Jacob S. wrote:

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

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stephen



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