On Tue, 2003-06-10 at 21:52, M. Fioretti wrote: > On Tue, Jun 10, 2003 21:11:56 at 09:11:56PM -1000, Warren Togami (warren@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > > > > > AMD isn't kidding when they claim to be the fastest 32bit servers on the > > market. Think of it as Athlon on steroids, not very expensive, and with > > 64bit room to grow later with only a software upgrade. > > What about power consumption and noise? Not depending by Red Hat, of > course, but really important for home use. > > Opteron is not the way to go from this point of view, or is it? According to xbitlabs or aces hardware (don't remember which) they *think* it is actually lower than Athlon power consumption, but I haven't seen any other articles about it. You may want to wait for Athlon 64 instead for home use. Opteron isn't quite available with AGP slots yet. Warren
