From: Andy Hogard (andyhogard@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Dec 25 2008 - 06:29:17 ARST
Hahah, was not able to resists some googling on the processors, yeah Q6600
turns out to be more bang for the money atm. While Q8820/30 will sooner or
latter will replace them, and prolly go down to the 180USD price line. :)
Sorry for going a bit OT. :P
On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Andy Hogard <andyhogard@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hmm, I actually meant the Q8200/Q8300 earlier and not qQ8800 ..sorry for
> the errata.
>
> Piotr, wouldnt it be better if one goes by the benchmarking results for
> multithreaded applications (games) rather than just l3/l2 cache nos. eh. You
> know the best place to lookup would be tomshardware charts, again I am not
> the one building this machine, so wont get into nitty gritty details of it.
>
> Yeah I know for the price of ram 8gig seems to be ok, but again not all
> have a free unlimited budget.
>
> My two cents.
>
>
> On Thu, Dec 25, 2008 at 5:56 AM, Piotr <usaccie@gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I have the Q6600 quad core vista 64 bit OS, 8gb ram and dynamips fly's on
>> it. I know if I move to ubuntu it will be even faster but it runs fine now
>> so why change OS's!
>> Do some research on the processor before you buy. Like the Q8300 comes
>> with
>> a very crappy 4mb cache, waste of money.
>>
>> It must be a quad core. The Q6600 packs a lot of bang for the buck and is
>> a
>> VERY good processor. It's better then some of the new ones.
>>
>>
>> http://compare.intel.com/pcc/showchart.aspx?mmID=38497,37586,37582,458896,49445,33423,39107,885492&familyID=1&culture=en-US
>>
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 11:42 AM, Nick Griffin
>> <nick.jon.griffin@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> > I built a cheap server comprised of a Q6600 quad core processor, 8 gig
>> of
>> > memory, terabyte of drive space (7200) rpm. I run this on a suse 10.3,
>> and
>> > I
>> > can easily run a R/S topology with protocols, as well as a s/p topology
>> > with
>> > the cpu in the 60-80% range, between 30-40 routers. I spent around $900,
>> > and
>> > with the right idle pc values it works awesome. I would definitly go
>> with
>> > the quad core option.
>> >
>> > HTH
>> >
>> > Nick Griffin
>> >
>> > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 8:39 AM, CCIE in6months <
>> cciein6months@gmail.com
>> > >wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hello group,
>> > >
>> > > I am preparing for R*S lab and at this stage I am arranging R&S lab
>> > > equipment. I am not thinking to buy real equipment but dynamips
>> server.
>> > >
>> > > Can anyone advise which of the options below would be the right one ,
>> > > regardless of cost. I need a good performance.
>> > >
>> > > Option 1
>> > > ======
>> > > Dual-core XEON 3.0 GHZ processor, 4GIG RAM, 72Ghz Hard-disk (HP
>> ML580
>> > G3
>> > > server)
>> > >
>> > > Option 2
>> > > ======
>> > > Single Quad Core 3.0 Ghz processor, 4 GIG RAM, 72Ghz Hard-disk (Dell
>> or
>> > > local brand)
>> > >
>> > >
>> > > Any consideration for low noise server? I know HP server is going to
>> make
>> > > noise.
>> > >
>> > > All I need is to run dynamips on this server. I will be using IEWB 5x
>> to
>> > > start with and later on other vendor.
>> > >
>> > > Thanks in Advance
>> > >
>> > >
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