Because I did not know if it's existance? Actually, I was looking at the Extreme simply because I stumbled upon it on the Intel website while trying to figure out what was likely to start showing up in the Apple low-end desktops and I am also in need of a new server so I was looking for the future guts of that box. Give the price the 820 looks like a much better choice of performance vs. $$.
One thing I do know is my old P-II "server" is tried and in need of replacement. Sure, it makes for a fine SAMBA and print server for the two Mac laptops but it is old and tired and can't handle the image capture and video processing that I need. Also it could greatly benefit from a primary SCSI drive where /tmp, /video (and the rest of the OS) resides with SATA raid for long-term storage for the data and videos. Another 2 gig of high-speed RAM or so would be nice. So, now it is time to upgrade and consider processors, etc. I am weary of AMD processors from past expirence and am looking at the Intel line for the next purchase. Greg On 7/29/05, Mike Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greg Brown wrote: > > > > > >>I'm not sure if the Intel Extreme is even for sale yet and in case you > >>haven't heard about it here is the skinny: it is a dual core > >>hyperthreading processor. > > Okay, I gotta ask. Why Pentium EE, Greg? A Pentium 820 is much > cheaper, and is dual core. Hell, even a dual core Athlon is less than > $1000. > > 820: > http://labs.anandtech.com/links.php?pfilter=2201 > > Athlon x2: > http://labs.anandtech.com/search.php?q=athlon+64+x2 > > Mike > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
