Re: Dual-core CPU vs. very large cache

----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Jakubik" <mikej@xxxxxxxxxx>


Martin Nilsson wrote:
Mike Jakubik wrote:
As much as i love AMDs cpus, the availability of good server motherboards and chipsets stinks, hopefully that will change when socket AM2 comes out.

That is an old myth: http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/

Its not an old myth. Find me a single cpu opteron board, with dual Intel network cards (bge and nve suck ass) connected to a PCIe bus. Sorry, it doesn't exist. You have your pick of the old AMD chipset, the crappy Nvidia, or the unsupported ServerWorks, which still doesn't have PCIe.

I suspect it doesn't exist because there's no market for single
cpu opteron boards, that's a desktop requirement not really server.

If you want server boards look for dual proc boards, there is a
good selection out there with a myriad of options.

Not sure why you think bge sucks not had any problems with them
here, fairly good performance and reliable.

Steve


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