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bughunter
Hi,
I'm currently working on some [multi-threaded] CPU intensive
experiments and as such am in the market for a new PC that will deliver
the most CPU performance for my budget. In addition I would like to
keep the electrical power consumption and noise to a minimum also, so
no power hungry 3D graphics is required, just basic graphics, HD,
memory and a netork adapter.
I see AMD are about to ship low power (65w) AthlonX2's. However, my
budget of up to 1000 GBP (about $1800 US) is enough to buy several of
these systems, unless I go for the very top end Athlons (and FX's), but
they have poor price/performance. I'm more inclined to buy 2 or 3
Athlon 3800+ based systems as my work can be split across multiple PC's
if necessary.
Alternatively I could go for a 2-way dual core opteron (4 cores in
total). If I did go this route I would want to use the Opteron HE's
because they run at 55watts instead of 89watts. From looking on the web
I see that such systems are quite expensive, although I would consider
building my own system if I could source the parts, preferably in the
UK.
www.scan.co.uk seem to have a selection of 2-way opteron m/boards,
although I gather from reading this newsgroup that they are at a
premium to the price in the US. I also couldn't find a single outlet in
the UK that supplies Opteron HE's, does anyone know if these are freely
available or are they only supplied to high end server builders?
If I can't source reasonable priced (in comparison to the US) Opteron
parts in the UK then I will just buy a couple of cheap Athlon X2
systems, but if anyone out there know's better then I'd really like to
try and build (or buy) a 2-way Opteron system as it would be more
conveinient for me to have 4 cores on one PC than across 2 PC's.
Thanks for you time,
Colin
I'm currently working on some [multi-threaded] CPU intensive
experiments and as such am in the market for a new PC that will deliver
the most CPU performance for my budget. In addition I would like to
keep the electrical power consumption and noise to a minimum also, so
no power hungry 3D graphics is required, just basic graphics, HD,
memory and a netork adapter.
I see AMD are about to ship low power (65w) AthlonX2's. However, my
budget of up to 1000 GBP (about $1800 US) is enough to buy several of
these systems, unless I go for the very top end Athlons (and FX's), but
they have poor price/performance. I'm more inclined to buy 2 or 3
Athlon 3800+ based systems as my work can be split across multiple PC's
if necessary.
Alternatively I could go for a 2-way dual core opteron (4 cores in
total). If I did go this route I would want to use the Opteron HE's
because they run at 55watts instead of 89watts. From looking on the web
I see that such systems are quite expensive, although I would consider
building my own system if I could source the parts, preferably in the
UK.
www.scan.co.uk seem to have a selection of 2-way opteron m/boards,
although I gather from reading this newsgroup that they are at a
premium to the price in the US. I also couldn't find a single outlet in
the UK that supplies Opteron HE's, does anyone know if these are freely
available or are they only supplied to high end server builders?
If I can't source reasonable priced (in comparison to the US) Opteron
parts in the UK then I will just buy a couple of cheap Athlon X2
systems, but if anyone out there know's better then I'd really like to
try and build (or buy) a 2-way Opteron system as it would be more
conveinient for me to have 4 cores on one PC than across 2 PC's.
Thanks for you time,
Colin