[THIN] Re: OT: AMD Opteron

Thats an eye opening comparison there - a pair of Dual-core Opterons
outperforming a Quad Xeon system!  If I had any Intel stock, I'd be
selling it :-)


On 4/29/05, James Hill <HillJ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> IBM has a 1U Scsi Version.  We have had one in production as a web front end
> for about 6 months.  Great box, great performance.
> 
> We've decided to buy Opteron's from now on for our Servers.  They run cooler
> and faster than the Xeon's in the majority of instances.  The fact that AMD
> developed x64 and Intel just copied it is another strong reason for us to go
> the Opteron's IMO.  You could almost call Intel's 64 bit chips(except the
> Itanium's) clones :)
> 
> The dual cores are looking very good and a lot of reviews show them
> trouncing the Xeon's.
> 
> http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2397
> 
> I can't wait for Windows Server x64 with a 64 bit edition of Citrix on a
> dual core system with say 16GB ram.  Should well and truly fly.
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Shonk [mailto:joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, 29 April 2005 3:37 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: AMD Opteron
> 
> Still no 1U SCSI version tho...
> 
> Joe
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Berdt van der Lingen
> Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2005 9:29 AM
> To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [THIN] Re: OT: AMD Opteron
> 
> On 4/28/05, jgates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx <jgates@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > We are looking at switching over to the AMD Opteron and was just curious
> if
> > anyone is using these?  Any issues with them?
> 
> After reading the whitepapers from HP we deployed 6 DL 145 1.8 ghz.
> with 2 gb memory.
> They are running fine and pretty fast, however we didn't stresstest them
> yet.
> 
> Note that HP released the DL145 G2 serie, looks better to me! They are
> even coming with dual core Opterons!
> 
> regards,
> 
> Berdt van der Lingen
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