Hmm, I'm seeing AMD64 dual processor boards for ~$500..hmm.. > -----Original Message----- > From: Daniel Drake [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2004 11:54 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] AMD64 or Dual Athlon or Other? > Motherboard suggestions? > > > 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 ;-) > >> > >>-- > >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list >
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