I was after chassis options for the 56xx chips. In the meantime Dell
have told me their website doesn't display westmere boxes, but the
sales guys are suggesting C6100 chassis.
On 15 June 2010 15:33, Santanu Das <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> We also, went for R410s 2*quad-core E5540 @ 2.53Ghz. In my experience, AMDs
> still seem to be a bit hotter than equivalent Intel.
>
> -Santanu
>
>
> On 15/06/2010 15:04, Martin Bly wrote:
>>
>> CPU chips or chassis models?
>>
>> Our recent services nodes were enhanced R410s (extra network ports,
>> disks). The CPUs are 55xx because 56xx were not available at the time
>> we ordered. Now we'd probably go for 56xx depending on what we wanted
>> them for but as was said at HEPSysMan, the best bang/buck seems to be
>> for the latest AMD chips.
>>
>> I have my eye on some R610s for (oracle) database servers but that's
>> another story.
>>
>> Martin.
>>
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