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Former Member
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Um, yes, that's what I told you. Put the HW in the HW hotel! I guess a good quality dual processor server with 2TB of disks could fit in 2U space and would cost you less in longer terms...
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courine
Master Cruncher Capt., Team In2My.Net Cmd. HQ: San Francisco Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1794 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Well, if I'm right, in the end I will have 4 times the crunching for the same power. The quad core here will be coming up very soon. When I get the power readings off that guy, I will know.
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Former Member
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Courine!
I am fighting for the blue slice in team, so you'd better not come up to my level!  I have a c2q in my homePC atm, and its like a dream  I am pretty sure that if you buy a dual CPU server board, it will not consume more than 130% of one PC with a C2D on board. You could then insert 2 quad Xeons and be in peace with your databases and the rest for quite some time! |
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cargod01
Veteran Cruncher USA Joined: Apr 25, 2007 Post Count: 508 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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Courine! I am fighting for the blue slice in team, so you'd better not come up to my level! I have a c2q in my homePC atm, and its like a dream I am pretty sure that if you buy a dual CPU server board, it will not consume more than 130% of one PC with a C2D on board. You could then insert 2 quad Xeons and be in peace with your databases and the rest for quite some time! Generally a true Server class board will take 140-150% of the power of a regular PC board. But the longevity & reliability of the board and the support for 2 CPUs make it workh it to me. The board itself doesn't actually take that much power. But if you are running 2 quad core CPUs, each core adds to the total power requirement. Because they are sharing cache and other components, a dual or quad core will take up less overall power than using separate machines. If you're going to run 8 Xeon cores, you better pony up for a good power supply with a high output rating. Unless I read it wrong, the XEON takes a little more power than a reg CPU. I may have to go to Intel and read some more. If each XEON core uses 100W (rather than the 130 of an older single core or the 85W of newer non XEON core duos) you would need an 800W Power supply just for the cores.    |
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Former Member
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For the Dual Quad Cores I am running I have a Triple Redundant Hot Swap 760 Watt Power supply. This produces enough power to handle the board, the 8 cores, 8 SCSI Hot Swap hard drives and 6 case fans and the 2 processor fans. Not sure if the power supplies have fans or not.
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twilyth
Master Cruncher US Joined: Mar 30, 2007 Post Count: 2130 Status: Offline Project Badges: 
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One of my machines is a Q6600 rated for 2.4 ghz and overclocked to 3.2 with a beefed up heatsink and fan. It has 4 gig of DDR2-1066 memory running at around 1050mhz. There is one hard drive and 4 90mm case fans. The CPU fan is 110mm. The power supply has a built in watt meter and at full load reads about 200 watts.
----------------------------------------The next fastest machine is a dual core Athlon with 2 gig, slightly small heatsink/fan, 4 hdd, 4 120mm fans. When at full load, the wattage meter reads around 160-180 - never saw it go near 200. Hope that helps.   |
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Former Member
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Hey twilyth you are talking about my setup:
q6600@3.4 4GB RAM@9xxMHz AMD X2 @ 2400 2GB RAM What a coincidence! |
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GEORGE DOMINIC
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 21, 2004 Post Count: 227 Status: Offline |
i got the original multi core machine
a p4 with hyperthreading my times have changed theres absolutely no sign of futureproof upgrades(32 bit die allready prototyped) guess im gonna bang in in the midlle of the next generation sumwheres when the prices come down demt http://www.twra5t.co.uk |
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courine
Master Cruncher Capt., Team In2My.Net Cmd. HQ: San Francisco Joined: Apr 26, 2007 Post Count: 1794 Status: Offline Project Badges:
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Well, it really is a matter of "what works" for you. There is no real push here, just if you run 24/7, you have to look at the cost of onwnership. If the point of the powr bill becomes tooo much, then upgrading and droping low-end machines can pay for itself.
----------------------------------------I found though, if you replace the off switch on you computer to an on switch, it does improve performance. |
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GEORGE DOMINIC
Senior Cruncher Joined: Nov 21, 2004 Post Count: 227 Status: Offline |
halo post 69
flexi hours there isnt a better option(c outfoxing murphys law) if you follow my reasoning there again multi tasking seems with us on the grid computing front i suppose long tasks are shared automatically between the processers n thats the way to go regs vid editing n music encoding though i heard that sum apps need specific instructions allso my theories onthose wonderfull 64gig usaf specials becoming essential hence available r dashed dam demt |
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