[THIN] Re: CPU speed: buy fasted/hottest or buy slowest/coolest

  • From: "Joe Shonk" <joe.shonk@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Oct 2007 12:58:58 -0700

What's your current bottleneck?  Memory, Disk I/O or CPU?  There is more to
consider these days than RAW speed.  Heat dissipation and power requirements
are also a concern.

 

Joe

 

From: thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:thin-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
Of Armstrong, David D.
Sent: Monday, October 08, 2007 12:15 PM
To: thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [THIN] CPU speed: buy fasted/hottest or buy slowest/coolest

 

Hi- 
We are going to buy a big batch of IBM 8853 Quad-core bladeservers.  My
colleague and I can't agree which model to choose from.  

3 ghz           1333 FSB        120W 
2 ghz           1333 FSB         80W 
1.86 ghz        1066 FSB         50W 

I think we should buy the fastest CPU available, just on principle.  He
thinks we should buy the lowest-power CPU (1.86 Ghz) we can get away with.
Our current servers, typically run less than 30% utilization.  These new
servers will host 40-50 users with desktop sessions and Pub. Apps.

What do you all think?  

thanks 
Dave  

 

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