On Fri, Sep 01, 2006 at 06:58:10PM -0500, Marc D.M. wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-01 at 18:19 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > scan, retouch, and store pictures from a digital camera > > watch DVDs on my big drafting monitor > > transfer my old VHS tapes to DVD and edit out commercials. > > (dream-on) filter out the snow since some where recorded > > off-air (antenna). > > > > I've been using opterons in servers for a little over a year now. (3 > servers) running Sarge AMD64. They all use ECC RAM and they run > beautifully. I even have frequency scaling on them to save electricity > when the load is low. > > I can't comment on the AMD64 FX because I have no experience with it, > but I can tell you that we're running regular AMD64 processors (Athlon > 3200+ and sempron 2600+) with both 32bit Debian and Ubuntu with no > problems. > > And on my laptop, equipped with an AMD Turion64 MT-30 processor, I > dual-boot between (Ubuntu) Dapper 32bit and Sarge 64bit.
Can you comment on anything you run on both the opterons and the AMD64, how the performance differes in a real-world sense? If you were building a combined server/workstation or straight workstaiton would you choose the opteron or the AMD64? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
