Jacob S. wrote:
On Sun, 15 Aug 2004 09:37:39 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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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