Good news! I just got word that the 1U chassis with hotswap drives
for our new Sparky has come into stock and should be shipping to me
today. Sparky's replacement is getting close...
Since CPU and memory prices tend to drop over time, I held off
ordering either of those components until I knew that the chassis was
on its way. Meanwhile, Intel went and released the Quad core Xeon
CPUs, which drop right into any system that was previously set up to
accept the dual core chips.
The original order specs were for a pair of 2.0GHz dual core Xeon
5130's, and the cost for those is about $350/ea. Now we have the
option of choosing the 2.0GHz quad core Xeon E5335 for about $730.
This would leave one socket free for further expansion, and would
only cost slightly more.
Then again, I have trouble envisioning that Sparky would ever need
more than its four cores, and wonder if it wouldn't be better to
spread the heat load between the pair of CPUs and heatsinks instead
of cramming them all into one.
Anyone have wisdom on this?
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