Re: [K12OSN] Server Specs

[Martin Stevens <stevens chace enfield sch uk>]

On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 18:20, Henry Hartley wrote:
> I'm looking at two MSI motherboards (MSI K8T Master2-FAR and MSI E7505
> Master2-F) which support dual Opteron and Xeon processors respectively.  The
> price of the boards are similar ($34 less for the K8T).  The Opteron 242
> 1.6GHz and Xeon 2.8GHz go for almost exactly the same price.  I'm not sure
> how to compare them, however.
> 
> Would anyone care to comment on the relative merits of these two systems?
> 
> Which would be preferable for a 16 computer K12LTSP lab (and why)?
> 
> Or will they both be more than I need and I would be better off spending
> some of the money elsewhere?
> 

At the moment I'd go for the XEON, there are plenty of people using
these at the moment, unless you like being on the bleeding edge, in
which case go for the opteron, but likely you'll be one of the first
using it with K12.

Plenty of RAM as usual, you probably won't need both CPU's just yet, the
SCSI is a definate must.

Personally I'd go with a ready built server, depending where you are

penguincomputers would probably be a good bet.

I'm in the UK and can recommend

www.dnuk.com

But any manufacturer that has tested thier hardware with Redhat will do.

HTH

Martin Stevens