Re: Fedora SMP dual core, dual AMD 64 processor system
"Bryan J. Smith" <[email protected]>
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On Tue, 2005-08-16 at 20:19 -0600, Maurice Hilarius wrote: > Actually AMD is quite fair with all of their "rollout partners" and > provide very good support on products and availability. Yes, I know. AMD is actually meeting demand, hence their lawsuit against Intel when they are artificially reducing shipments at HP, IBM, etc... Simply put, HP has a backlog that is _not_ due to availability. ;-> > I disagree. > For some examples: ... cut ... I said the nVidia nForce chipsets themselves _lack_ PCI-X. Yes, some vendors are tunneling in the AMD8131 (or AMD8132). But my point was that _increases_cost_. I wasn't saying vendors who add the AMD8131 are bad. I was just saying the design _increases_cost_. > While this is the case for some types of cards, PCI Express will > easily beat it, given availability of boards. > That is why the newest Myrinet, and Infiniband cards are all PCI- > Express. Yes, but the PCIe storage cards are _no_where_. That's the problem. I like the HT-1000 because it's a single chip, probably low cost, and it gives you _both_ a PCI-X channel _and_ a PCIe x8 in a single chip. That would make for a powerful, but inexpensive, "entry-level" server. Now only if the products were available. ;-> > You work for Monarch or something? No. They are the only ones I have dealt with though. > Lots of vendors have p[roper soilutions. I would never suggest otherwise, but there are also a lot of system assemblers and, even more so, consultants who don't. They are selling non-PCI-X systems, and putting in storage controllers on the legacy PCI bus (yikes!). > However, as was earlier mentioned, if you want more than 4GB RAM, one > should consider Socket 940 boards. > As for PCI-X, yes, that is useful, and so is PCI-Express, so buy a > Tyan or SuperMicro or ASUS, or Arima board, and get both! As someone who has rolled out S2885 and, more recently, S2895 systems to clients, I agree. -- Bryan J. Smith [email protected] http://thebs413.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- The best things in life are NOT free - which is why life is easiest if you save all the bills until you can share them with the perfect woman