On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 10:32:52PM -0800, Peter Jay Salzman wrote: > On Thu 05 Feb 04, 10:17 PM, Bill Broadley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > one problem: it's pricey. pricewatch has the cheapest board at $436 in > > > CA (the first perk of living in NJ) with free fedex. at that price, > > > i'll be running a pair of opteron 140's with 32MB on each CPU. :) > > > > Er, 140's are for uni-processors. > > yeah. that was supposed to have been a joke. the 32 MB was also > supposed to be a joke. > > i wouldn't run the opterons with anything less than 64MB each. > > ;)
Heh, well, this is one of those times, how often are you really going to run 2 cpu intensive processes at once? Keep in mind you could get a killer single: 2.0 GHz Athlon 64 $220 Random athlon 64 $220 2.0 GB ram PC3200 $250 dual 160 GB sata $200 nice quiet antec $80 (with 4 shock mounted bays, and temp adaptive fans) If you have to much money left over get a $750 dell 20" LCD. BTW while the athlon 64 has 1/2 the memory bandwidth, PC3200 is faster then PC2700, and the athlon 64 memory bus is lower latency. Check the benchmark sites for a direct comparison. -- Bill Broadley Information Architect Computational Science and Engineering UC Davis _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
