On Thu, 18 Sep 2008, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote:
Cost of a decent motherboard these days with dual core/ dual processors?
www.pricewatch.com is one of your many friends here.
I may have to replace a very early Tyan with dual Opterons at 1.6G but have case/disks/reasonable PSU. Damn thing keeps throwing kernel panics and being temperature sensitive - but it's been my literal under office desk "supercomputer" for about three years and, because it has wheels, follows me from desk to desk.
Nowadays I think a single processor, quad core is likely to be cheapest per nominal aggregate cycle, although there is also a quad processor, dual core by somebody -- Supermicro? that looks interesting and might be a hair cheaper. But of course what processor/core combination is best for you likely depends on how solidly you're CPU vs memory bound.
Deskside socket is 230V at 5A and the office has standard aircon: 12 x Intel 330 dual core Atoms in a lunchbox, anyone?
Hmmm, not a lot of headroom there. Better not get a CX1, even as a gift...;-) rgb
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