I am being forced to turn to the dark side it appears...

TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
edited October 2003 in Hardware
I have needs for motherboards with more then two 64bit slots. Meaning I must leave the AMD fold once again. The xeon/Intel camp offers my only solutions. meaning I will then have two Intel dual servers and two amd dual servers. Will the madness never end? I just sold my gigabit fiber lan complete on ebay to switch to gigabit copper. Hope I don't regret the choice....

I have to admit that except for the lack of additonal pci slots I have loved my dual p3 server also.. This is getting scary ! Its not a barn burner but had two onboard LAN 100mbit ports and vga and had two 64/66 slots. If it had one more I would of been thrilled. And its dead quiet unlike my amd box's so it makes a great fileserver that has to run all the time as its not noisy at all. And it cost 12 bucks which didn't hurt... (grin)

But I need more then two 64 bit slots meaning I am about to enter the xeon zone it appears. Wish me luck on my most fearsome journey to date. Bring on the pci-x !

Tex

Comments

  • edcentricedcentric near Milwaukee, Wisconsin Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Best of luck Tex.
    There is nothing 'wrong' with Inhell, it is just that you pay more and get less. They work fine.
    If your ap is dictating it, then to the dark side you must go. But trust us, we know that you will be back.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    Gigabit fibre/gigabit copper, you won't regret the change going to either one from either one. Copper media's really come a long way! You'll probably get identical throughput.

    But intel? Auuuugh, man. Comeon. ;D
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited October 2003
    There are pluses and minuses for sure but the noise and heat levels are much lower which is also beginning to be a problem as you can see from my setup. I can grab a new Intel xeon dual board that has 4 or 5 pci-x slots on eBay for about $225 which is only slightly more then a nice new dual amd. The cpu's are more but I don't need the fastest xeons and the market for the used slower ones is really weak since there are so few xeon boards not in corporate use. Corporate america doesn't need the used ones and they get dumped on eBay pretty reasonable. My dual 1700 xp is plenty fast enough. My dual 2100 AMD doesnt feel any faster but is a lot hotter to run in a rack and needs a lot more noisy fans to keep it cool. Dual 2.0 xeons would work as well and not be as much more for me to aquire really then 2400 XP's and be much quiter and cooler. Takes DDR and stuff also... When your OC'ing and buying the very fastest cpu's made AMD kicks their butt in priceing but when you start scarfing for used stuff thats one step or two down on the performance ladder for servers then the game changes considerably. I wish their were dual amd MB's that offered more then two 64bit slots. Their might be opteron based boards but then we are talking WAY out of my price range. I can get cpu's and MB's for the xeons for just dual opteron MB pricing right now.

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited October 2003
    Thrax find me a amd solution for my needs and I am in buddy.

    Tex
  • TexTex Dallas/Ft. Worth
    edited October 2003
    Actually the new tyan thunder with gigabit copper onboard might work sonce it saves me a 64bit slot I would of used for the lan actually. The old MP based thunder had like 4 64/33 slots thougth but I need 64/66
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited October 2003
    You know I'm just harassing you, mate.

    <font size=-7>GO TYAN + AMD. DEATH TO INTEL!</font>
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