On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 at 5:53pm, Bowie Bailey wrote
Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
Is there any reason you're locked into Xeon/FB-DIMM? SuperMicro makes
many rather nice Opteron boards, with good ol' DDR SDRAM. And there
aren't many areas where Xeon outperforms Opteron these days, if any.
Not really, can you recommend a comparable Opteron MB? I need PCI-X
133 for the raid card, capability of at least 32MB RAM, and preferably
onboard video and LAN.
I'll assume you meant 32GB RAM. ;) In that case, your options become a
bit more limited. SM doesn't have any 2 socket Opteron boards with 16
DIMM slots -- they have at most 4 slots/socket. So, to stick with SM,
you'd have to either go with 4GB sticks (which, I'm guessing, may well be
as pricy as FB-DIMM per GB) or go to a 4 socket board. Either way, you
may not get much cost savings, but you'll still likely get a performance
boost.
The other option is to go with Tyan. They have the S3892, a dual socket
board with 16 DIMM slots.
As an aside, 3ware now has a PCIe version (the 9590SE) in addition to the
PCI-X 9550.
--
Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University
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