Glen: I bought a Dell dual-core AMD Opteron rack-mount server several months ago, to go along with the 18 month old Xeon rack-mount server we purchased. The machine was virtually identical, and cost more by the way.
The AMD is twice as loud as the Intel and is most annoying. It's always something, isn't it? :-) Bill >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Batchelor >Sent: Wednesday, June 13, 2007 8:56 AM >To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org >Subject: RE: [U2] New UV system > > Cost-wise, consider a dual-core AMD X2 system. If you have a >little more funds, the 5140 or 5150 Xeons are well cached chips >for the money. Either way, get a dual-CPU mainboard that is >one-CPU capable so that you can drop in an "upgrade" chip later >as CPU demand increases. (Trust me, it will..) > > Keep in mind that each client IP will take a Windows user >license if you plan on serving files via sharing. The max >connections/licenses, if I'm not mistaken, is still 10 for >non-server versions of Windows. Linux would be a better >fit all around for a server, but that's my opinion. I >have 4 Debian boxen and one RHEL box running servers here. > >------------------------------------------- >Glen Batchelor >IT Director >All-Spec Industries >phone: (910) 332-0424 >fax: (910) 763-5664 >e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------- u2-users mailing list u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
