Dennis, The 8-core single processor market dominates. You also have the new Quad-core AMD Phenom which will be officially out soon and the Intel Q6700 processor. A dual Quad-Core processor server will be a very nice machine for someone with the use.
As my wallet bursts into flames, I'd look into those Quad processors for commodity sake... ~ Ken ----- Original Message ---- From: Dennis Clarke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Andrew Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2007 9:37:27 AM Subject: Re: [osol-discuss] Will OpenSolaris work on a intel desktop Quad processor > > I am finally biting the bullet and ditching my work machine - a 9 year > old Ultra 10 - for a new system I thought I would go for the fastest cpu > on the market. At the risk of getting into endless loops of debates about "fast" I just have to ask why you think that is the fastest processor in the market? When you get it .. run the Radiance benchmark which is heavy number crunching and then we shall see. Thus far no one and nothing can touch an AMD Opteron running Solaris 10. see : http://www.blastwave.org/articles/BLS-0059/index.html Dennis _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected] __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
