Dear All, I have a hardware question. (Remember I have been having bad luck with performance of ltsp servers, and Jose suggested the NIC is the bottleneck)
I need an LTSPserver for a room of 20 thin clients. I can get a dual core xeon for the same price as a core 2 quad/phenomII x4 (same RAM, pcie x16 slot, Gbps onboard). Is it better to get the xeon, or better to get more cores? Alternatively, I can get core 2 duo or athlon 64 x2 for half the price. Is that a bargain or false economy? Or would you get two of these instead of one of the above? Then what NIC do I need? is x1 too slow? I have a 24 port Gbps switch. I am thinking 4G of RAM is enough. Do you agree? thanks! nigel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
