[gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread Jarry
Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from consumer components (yes, I already warned him about zero-support consequences). It should be some kind of multi-purpose server

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Jarry mr.ja...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:08]: Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from consumer components (yes, I already warned him about zero-support consequences).

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread Dale
meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:08]: Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from consumer components (yes, I already warned him about

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread Bill Longman
On 12/15/2010 09:35 AM, Jarry wrote: So what should I pick for him? i7-950, or phenom-1100t? Or yet some cheap 4/6-core opteron 4xxx/6xxx? Uh oh..don your flameproof underwear and open the floodgates I've not used the new six-core AMDs but I love my XII 940. And with Intel's new

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: cheap make yourself server: i7-950 or phenom 1100T?

2010-12-15 Thread meino . cramer
Dale rdalek1...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:52]: meino.cra...@gmx.de wrote: Jarrymr.ja...@gmail.com [10-12-15 19:08]: Hi, a friend of mine asked me to prepare a small server for him. Unfortunatelly he can not afford to buy brand-name server so he asked me to build one for him, from