That's valuable info. These dual core amd's are on ebay for 'next-to-nothing', pls tell me more, what are the PPC machines, I have seen PPC to be an option for a Gentoo dist. but didn't know what it is.
> There's a reason that Itinium was called the Itanic.... It's probably > the biggest waste of effort Intel and HP have ever embarked on. Next to > no-one supports it, and it's special features arn't really all that > special compared to the average Opteron. If you want the most > robust/fastest chipset, Power chips are the way to go. (Not Power PC > (PPC), just Power chips). A workstation running dual Power5 chips would > more or less obliterate anything you could care to throw at it. > > If you're strictly speaking of the x86 world of chips (Which btw the > Itanium isn't really more then >85% compatible) then the dual core > socket 940 opterons are still the best chip, followed by the dual core > socket 939 Athlon 64s. If you are running a rack or thirty of blades, > the difference between the IA64 and the AMD64 heat output and wattage > ingestion more then pays for itself. Performance wise, the Opterons are > also far enough ahead of the Intel offerings to make it worthwhile to > stick with AMD. > > YMMV and My opinions are my own. > -- Dr Gavin Seddon School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences University of Manchester Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PL, U.K. -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list
