Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? Motherboard suggestions?

[Daniel Drake]

Bear in mind that you cant (or shouldnt) use dual-athlon-XP's in a SMP board. 
You should use AMD's MP chips. Unfortunately these don't go as fast as the XP 
chips (as in, XP's go up to 3000 and MP's go upto 2400 or something), and the 
board support is also a limiting factor.

I built 5 dual-AMD-MP systems a while ago. I used dual MP2200+'s in each one, 
that was the highest the motherboard (Tyan Tiger) would support (and I don't 
think AMD had any faster ones available either). I installed a stage1 gentoo 
on one as a "hardware test" (or something like that) and I was amazed at how 
fast it compiled.

Daniel

Brendan Sullivan wrote:
I'd go multi-CPU. The Athlon 64 is a good processor, but with the
multitude of things you have going on all at once, I would think being
able to handle multiple processes at once would be more what you need.
the 64 can still only handle one process at a time.
I have a 2800 w/ 512Mb of ddr400, and it's a really quick machine...a
dual proc 2600 or 2800 would probably be ridiculously fast if set up
correctly.
Brendan

On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 07:56, Brenden Walker wrote:

I'm thinking about building a new system, and can't decide if I want to go
with AMD64 or dual Athlons.... (or something else)?
Current system is an Athlon 1200+ I think, 512MB RAM, 2gigs of swap, plenty
of HD space
Current Usage:

Apache (hosting 3 PHPNuke sites, running behind cable modem..so bandwidth
usage is pretty small, maybe 3mb/day)
MySQL (Supporting websites only)
IPTABLES NAT/Firewall routing
Fetchmail/Procmail filtering external POP accounts through spamassassin into
local POP accounts
The biggest usage comes from running:

-XFree86
-Evolution (personal mail)
-KMail (business mail)
-Citrix ICA Client (not all the time)
-VMWare workstation with Win2K Pro session running a windows app that sucks
up perhaps 25% virtual CPU 24x7, no chance of moving it to Linux..
-I also use this as my workstation, GNUCash, OpenOffice and the like..

I prefer keeping all these things on the same box, so I only run one machine
24x7..
My goal is to get better response when working on it, and overall less CPU
usage (percent wise).  With more horsepower (and more RAM) I could set nice
on VMWare to lower priority and get better response to other things without
slowing down VMWare.  

I have a feeling I'm going to get swamped with suggestions ;-)

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