Buying something new

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Thu, Oct 07, 2004 at 12:03:58PM -0400, Igor Denisov wrote:
> I guess the important question is, what is your budget?
> If you are looking at a dual processor box, on the low end of the
> scale you'll ahve your Athlon MPs or older Xeons, AMD still being
> cheaper.
> 
> If you want something better, the Opterons are the way to go, under
> Linux, they seem to perform much better than the ne 64-bit enabled
> Xeons, especially in server apps, see
> 
> http://www.anandtech.com/linux/showdoc.aspx?i=2163&p=8 
> 
> and
> 
> http://www20.tomshardware.com/cpu/20030422/opteron-17.html
> 
> Also, are you going to build it yourself?
> I'm not aware of any PC shops around the city that would more or less
> specialized
> 
> Distro-wise, I personally am sticking to my SuSE 9.1
> So far, it is the only distro that properly recognized my SATA
> controller (a via one, I think, on an nForce2 board, and it seems to
> be unsupported officially), something that even win2k had trouble
> with.

Well the nforce2 board I have at work (Asus A7N8X-E-DX) has an SII3112A
SATA controller which works perfectly with 2.4.25+ and 2.6.x with no
problems at all, as does the P4P800 (intel ICH5R SATA controller).

My next machine will be an Athlon 64 though when I get money for that
(just bought house, have to pay for that a bit first). :)

Lennart Sorensen
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