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    New server needed. Intel or AMD?

    on raid 5 vs 1+0 or 0+1 raid 5 gets close at three drives to 1+0 or 0+1 true raid 5 completely blows away any combo of 1 and 0 you want to put together with 5 or more drives :) the more drives you add the more write and read heads you add as well. put 8 drives together in raid 5 and...
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    Dual Opteron SFF zmax-DP, need some critique

    the seagates are whisper quiet too if you just go with a 7200 rpm drive above 100Gb. pretty cheap at newegg saw the 200 Gb sata II for $113. friend bought the 120 Gb pata model recently at FRY's with rebates came out to $40 when i installed it i swear i could not hear the thing in the case at...
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    criticize my dual opteron build (tech tour)

    on the subject of "numa goodness" :rolleyes: numa is not a speed benefit nor is it gonna be a 2x performance advantage unless you are doing a virtual environment or running a database strictly off the second processor. also you can do numa with 2 sticks. one in each bank. what you don't...
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    You can help make longhorn better!

    I definately think that storage drivers should be able to load from anything. Microsoft is dropping other legacy software support with longhorn and other legacy devices. Yet to install you need a legacy media format? Yeah that makes sense. If the company is full of lazy programmers who don't...
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    AMD X2 or Dual single cores(Opteron)?-which is "better"?

    yes ecc will drag you down with a latency penalty but that isn't the only reason why. check out the overclock review of the 4400+ at anandtech. they are getting better performance at same clock speeds vs. standard a64's clocked the same in single threaded apps. they are concluding there has...
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    Rackmount?

    there are a few suggestions i could make in you local area to pick up rack cabinets. first off go to the scrap yards. i found 2 old ibm 360 cabinets for scrap prices $70 apiece. rubber wheels. solid steel construction with hinged door. and the size of a refrigerator :) weight of a...
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    Can't decide between Dual Core and Dual CPU

    well he is asking about which to do dual xeons or dual core p4. visaris mentioned get dual xeon and upgrade later. i was debunking that notion only. i personally would not do the dual cpu xeon and upgrade to dual core later approach either as it makes no sense price wise to waste that kind of...
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    It's offical, apple moving to x86 Intel chips by June 6th 2006

    i see a different situation than anyone has so far mentioned in detail. mac is going to be an oem'd franchise option in the future. apple tried opening up the mac architechture in the past and then competing in the same marketplace only to be outdone by their competitors. they then pulled...
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    Can't decide between Dual Core and Dual CPU

    the intel world has no upgrade from current xeon to dual core. dual core xeon will be entirely new chipset than what that dell has as it won't support dual cores. if you are looking at that setup you'd best wait a few months for dual core dual cpu xeon. the price premium is $80 for the 2...
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    Opteron Dualie Rig

    well for your setup you won't need the numa memory access as win xp won't do numa anyway and server 2003 sucks at video. for a compromise solution go for the old msi master 2 has agp and usb 2 is cheap will hold your ram downside is no numa ever no matter what os you stick on your...
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    Xbox 360 question

    first of the post from the mac guy is waaayyyy off. the xbox 360 cpu is not a stripped down g5 or pwer core. its a power 4/5 derivitive as it would be cheaper to re-engineer a multi core cpu than build one from scratch out of a single core cpu such as g5. and the g5 and power 5 processors are...
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    XBOX360 Revealed: Implications for R520?

    the xbox 360 gpu isn't going to be based on r420 or r600 or r520. it's a custom design made for microsoft by ati according to microsoft's supplied design requirements. also microsoft owns r500 not ati. what do you think would happen if ati used r500 elements in r600 that were designed by...
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    "Downgrade?" Opteron 150 to dual opteron 240

    i have a dual 240 opteron as my main workstation/gaming machine and it does just fine so far at every game i've thrown at it. plus dualie goodnes for video rendering and such. go for faster 244 or 246 cpus though. no sense in getting the bottom of the barrel speed wise spend a bit more...
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    Need 8-16 processors. What's the best solution?

    the dual core solution uses a shared memory bus between the 2 cores. basically core 1 talks to memory through core 0. the opteron already has the ability to hand data from one processors memory bus to another over the hypertransport link used for communication between processors in a multi cpu...
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    Please help me build my rig for Gaming and DTV

    instead of the extra money the media center edition of win xp and the remote to use it costs. spend a bit more on the all in wonder variety of x800 card. you sacrifice a slight bit in performance but gain tivo functionality if you add a second pci tv tuner like the 200 series from ati. plus you...
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