[lug] server spec

Calvin Dodge caldodge at gmail.com
Fri Jun 8 18:34:06 MDT 2007


On 6/8/07, Zan Lynx <zlynx at acm.org> wrote:
> If you go with Intel I wouldn't get a P4.  I suppose they're cheap now.

Thanks, I missed that.  P4s are power hogs (which is why Opteron made
major gains in the server market until the Core 2 CPUs were released),
and cooling is extra-important in a 1U case. Definitely, if your heart
is set on an Intel CPU, don't get a P4-based one.

Calvin



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