Xeon vs Opteron? The Xeon 5600 series is either 4-core or 6-core. The Opteron 6100 series is either 8-core or 12-core.
It would seem that the Opteron is the better compute server, especially since most SuperMicro chipsets support 50% more memory in the Opteron than Xeon. But then why is the Xeon more expensive? Are there some features I don't know about that make the Xeon that much better than the Opteron? On Fri, Jul 15, 2011 at 4:52 AM, Patrick Cable <[email protected]> wrote: > I'm thinking about buying some (20) Silicon Mechanics Rackform iServ > R308.v2 compute boxes for my EDA apps compute grid. They'd be running > RHEL5. I'd probably get them with an X5660 and 48gb of ram. Not too > worried about dual power supplies, since they're compute box not > servers. Link - > http://www.siliconmechanics.com/i27241/4-drive-xeon-5600-1U.php -- Perfection is just a word I use occasionally with mustard. --Atom Powers-- _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list [email protected] https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
