Re: List back

On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:53:11PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:20:29PM +0100, Jason Clifford wrote:
> > I'd appreciate if anyone can recommend a good supplier of servers that are 
> > not too power hungry.
> 
> While we're on the subject what do people think is the CPU with the
> best performance:Watt ratio at the moment? (for doing actual hosting
> on, so that excludes the system-on-chip and embedded stuff really)
> 
> I suppose the choice is between the Opteron and the dual / quad
> core Xeons.

I'd imagine a mobile chip would be pretty good, especially if your
workload is very spikey. Unfortunately, I don't think they come in SMP
flavours (although you can get mobile versions of the dual core chips).
Motherboard choices are likely to be limited, I guess...

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