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[papi]

thinking of buying a new Supermicro server (http://www.supermicro.com/products/s...YS-5015M-T.cfm) and it supports the Pentium D (dual core) cpu...

Can anyone tell me in short if dual core (pentium d) cpus 1) run hotter than xeon 2) are faster/slower than equivalent clock speed xeon 3) are supported by linux kernel without issues 4) anything else you think is worth mentioning

Thanks

[LoginTech]

if you are looking for all out brute force and outstanding quality i'd say go with the Xeon's they are tried and true and you know they will run for a long time w/o issues.

[SuperiorWebWorks]

I will second that ... Xeon i think is the way to go as well.

[cwl@apaqdigital]

unlike AMD dual-core, the two cores in P-D chip share the same front side bus (FSB) to external north-bridge and memory controller, therefore the performance will be inferior to two single Xeon chips which use independent FSB.

[Gavin_mega-host]

i have a xenon and i think its better than my old server celeron

i think u mean celeron d not pentium d

[LoginTech]

it may not be called the Pentium D but it is the pentium dual core proc that he's talking about and we know that

[AvailNetworks]

they are called the pentium D, there is also a Celeron D as well though (no direct relation and no the celeron is not dual core) If you are thinking single chip dual core go with the athlon X2....very very nice chip!

[(Stephen)]

btw, P4 Dual cores are SUPER HOT!

[bryanh]

I wonder if the OS needs to understand dual core procs to take advantage of them. If so, I wonder if anything but windows understands them yet.

Anyone using the 64bit xeons w/ linux? Any recommendations on 2.4 vs 2.6 kernels w/ these procs

[(Stephen)]

Bryan, OS needs nothing special, 64bit x64 linux on Xeon is good, but better on AMD64 chips, I would go 2.6

[bryanh]

You would go 2.6 because of the CPU or for other reasons?

[bryanh]

Any 2.6 distro suggestions for a redhat junkie? Not much on fedora or redhat enterprise.

[qps]

Mandriva is probably closest to Redhat. SUSE is also a good choice.

[papi]

Look I know that Xeon is tried and true but we're going to be probably buying a dozen of new servers and don't want them to be outdated/irrelevant in 12 months time ...

I guess dual-core Pentium is still a little too new and people are cautios. I guess Xeon it is then ...

I'll be running a 3ware 8006-2LP (2 x 36gb Raptors in Raid1) in the server so onboard scsi/sata is irrelevant ... can anyone recommend a good supermicro 1U Xeon superserver with very good cooling, stable motherboard etc

[AvailNetworks]

It is not supermicro but a great setup from tyan would be http://www.tyan.com/products/html/gt20b5350.html

you will be very happy with the xeons