fastest pc : Dual opterons

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For about 2gs, a dual opteron setup will smoke the heck out of a dual mac g5, which smokes the heck out of pretty much everything else, including dual xeons.

The dual opteron systems can also address up to 16 gbs of highspeed ram.

can you picture running 48 tracks loaded to the brim with effects and not hiccuping?

you'll probably need that 15000 rpm raid system though.
 
yes yes, that does sound inticing..

this may be off topic but i was reaing, in an email article from pcworld, that there is a four-cpu opteron available from HP soon. Would this computer rule?

One more thing, could a computer that was inteded to work as a server, be used for consumer use? would it perform better than regular computers or would it just be a waste of money.
 
a thought...

when you get into multi-processor environments that usually requires server-based operating systems that aren't really geared towards "normal" pc functions. I'm sure a good P4 (HyperThreading - 800mhz fsb) with a couble gb of ram and dual raptor drives would fare thee well. :P

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It will need a numa aware OS. AFAIK there is no single windoze available yet that addresses this.

Do you need hard discs when you have 16GB (or 20GB on the quad..)?

Sadly most server oriented boards only have a build-in pci video adaptor. And you need large cases (the quad is 13"x16") and large psu's.

Got to stop, I'm starting to drool on my keyboard....
 
there is actually a 4 cpu opteron available but it was based on the opteron 84x series and very expensive. $10k plus

The dual opterons with the 248 chips are just as fast if not faster, and MUCH cheaper.

I also read that these computers can now address up to 32 gigs of ram. Canyoubelieveit?!?!

Now, a quad opteron with 248 series chips for under 5gs would own for good.

I think that there is a windows xp 64 in the works that will be able to take advantage of all that 64 bit power.
 
Havoc said:
It will need a numa aware OS. AFAIK there is no single windoze available yet that addresses this.

Do you need hard discs when you have 16GB (or 20GB on the quad..)?
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that's very true. even a 24 track 4 minute song will not need 20 gigs of space. The whole song can be loaded into memory and worked on without the software having to ever read from disk.

I've got to stop drooling as well.
 
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