Web Hosting Talk : Web Hosting Main Forums : Dedicated Server : Quick Question. Dual Opteran or Dual Xeon 2.4?

[ebizcraftsman]

Hello,

I need to know a quick question.. I have a site that has at any given time 600-1000 people downloading movies and files at the same time. It is a very high resource site that uses close to 2,000 gig of bandwidth per month so far..

What processor would you recommend for this type site??

Dual Xeon 2.4 w/ hyper threading
2 gigs ram
scsi main drive
ide backup drive

or

Dual Opteran 240
2 gigs ram
scsi main drive
ide backup drive

Please let me know as I am going to get this server ASAP..

[dkitchen]

Opteron 240 will be faster.

Dan

[JonathanLH]

If it's just static files, i'd go with hosting via ftp instead of http (if you are not).
The opteron 240 is a 1.4ghz cpu, putting that against a 2.4ghz xeon would be interesting.
I don't think there would be much in it personally (and if it's ftp, there would be no real difference), but I would personally go for the Opteron.

[tamasrepus]

Given that you've said the server is going to do nothing but serve files (not running any scripts, etc), it probably does not make a difference. You will be disk IO bound.

That said, I'd pick the Opterons.

[WebNX]

For what you describe the Xeon 2.4's will be faster. if it was db driven / something that is heavy on the memory the opterons might keep up, but remember the 240 opterons are bottom of the barrel / only 1.4ghz clock, not too fast. if it was 242 or 244 then yes I would say the AMDS. Clock speed for clock speed AMDs are faster, but we are talking 2000mhz of speed difference here.

I am a big AMD fan and 80%+ of the servers we use are AMD based, however in this case I am not going to promote something that is slower just to make AMD look good we do alot of benchmarks on hardware before we deploy it to get an idea of speeds.

**edit, just glanced at our sandra benchmarking program, the 2.4ghz xeon is quite a bit faster than a dual 240 opteron, a 242 is almost the same speed, and 244 will beat it hands down, remember the 240 will have faster memory speeds though**

[LinuxMaster]

Originally Posted by webnx

For what you describe the Xeon 2.4's will be faster. if it was db driven / something that is heavy on the memory the opterons might keep up, but remember the 240 opterons are bottom of the barrel / only 1.4ghz clock, not too fast. if it was 242 or 244 then yes I would say the AMDS. Clock speed for clock speed AMDs are faster, but we are talking 2000mhz of speed difference here.

I am a big AMD fan and 80%+ of the servers we use are AMD based, however in this case I am not going to promote something that is slower just to make AMD look good we do alot of benchmarks on hardware before we deploy it to get an idea of speeds.

**edit, just glanced at our sandra benchmarking program, the 2.4ghz xeon is quite a bit faster than a dual 240 opteron, a 242 is almost the same speed, and 244 will beat it hands down, remember the 240 will have faster memory speeds though**

The Opteron 240 is 800MHz FSB and the 242 is 1600MHz FSB... I didn't realize it jumped like that until you enticed me to look up the specs :-)

[dkitchen]

Originally Posted by webnx

For what you describe the Xeon 2.4's will be faster. if it was db driven / something that is heavy on the memory the opterons might keep up, but remember the 240 opterons are bottom of the barrel / only 1.4ghz clock, not too fast. if it was 242 or 244 then yes I would say the AMDS. Clock speed for clock speed AMDs are faster, but we are talking 2000mhz of speed difference here.

I am a big AMD fan and 80%+ of the servers we use are AMD based, however in this case I am not going to promote something that is slower just to make AMD look good we do alot of benchmarks on hardware before we deploy it to get an idea of speeds.

**edit, just glanced at our sandra benchmarking program, the 2.4ghz xeon is quite a bit faster than a dual 240 opteron, a 242 is almost the same speed, and 244 will beat it hands down, remember the 240 will have faster memory speeds though**

Good post - but 2.4ghz - 1.4ghz = 1000mhz difference

[WebNX]

x 2 = 2000mhz

Originally Posted by RazorBlue - Dan

Good post - but 2.4ghz - 1.4ghz = 1000mhz difference

[dkitchen]

Originally Posted by webnx

x 2 = 2000mhz

Ah you got me there , it's getting late ...