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SE7525RP2 - which cpu's?
Hi all,
I have had this mb for a while, SE7525RP2, and I would like to put a couple of cpu's in it and get it up and running. My question is which pair gives the best bang for the buck. When I started watching cpu prices near the end of last year, the 3.8/2M were going for around $850 and now they are up over $950. I have seen 2.8/1M oem's listed for around $150 each. How much more powerfull are the 3.8's over the 2.8's in a file server type environment? The mb will probably end up in a 2U rack mount with 8 hard drives. Should I just save the money on the cpu's and put it toward ram and hd tech? thanks, charles.... |
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SE7525RP2 - which cpu's?
***** charles wrote:
Hi all, I have had this mb for a while, SE7525RP2, and I would like to put a couple of cpu's in it and get it up and running. My question is which pair gives the best bang for the buck. When I started watching cpu prices near the end of last year, the 3.8/2M were going for around $850 and now they are up over $950. I have seen 2.8/1M oem's listed for around $150 each. How much more powerfull are the 3.8's over the 2.8's in a file server type environment? The mb will probably end up in a 2U rack mount with 8 hard drives. Should I just save the money on the cpu's and put it toward ram and hd tech? I doubt you would see significant improvement from faster CPUs or more CPU cache, while RAM helps file servers. So does learning how to tune the system, but that's another issue. If you will be hitting this server hard go big on memory, and unless you go with real SCSI drives look hard at software RAID rather than firmware implementations. -- Bill Davidsen He was a full-time professional cat, not some moonlighting ferret or weasel. He knew about these things. |
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SE7525RP2 - which cpu's?
"Bill Davidsen" wrote in message
news:PJUUh.4632$Yh.910@trndny03... ***** charles wrote: Hi all, I have had this mb for a while, SE7525RP2, and I would like to put a couple of cpu's in it and get it up and running. My question is which pair gives the best bang for the buck. When I started watching cpu prices near the end of last year, the 3.8/2M were going for around $850 and now they are up over $950. I have seen 2.8/1M oem's listed for around $150 each. How much more powerfull are the 3.8's over the 2.8's in a file server type environment? The mb will probably end up in a 2U rack mount with 8 hard drives. Should I just save the money on the cpu's and put it toward ram and hd tech? I doubt you would see significant improvement from faster CPUs or more CPU cache, while RAM helps file servers. So does learning how to tune the system, but that's another issue. If you will be hitting this server hard go big on memory, and unless you go with real SCSI drives look hard at software RAID rather than firmware implementations. -- Bill Davidsen He was a full-time professional cat, not some moonlighting ferret or weasel. He knew about these things. Any ideas on what scsi hardware to get and the final configuration? Remember, bigger hd space is better for me. thanks, charles.... |
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