[melkor]

That looks fun. I have no experience with AMD but have been meaning to give them a try.

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unless your looking to get one of the SUN AMD servers with the insane cooling systems stay away from AMD for a server.. you think you have fire/thermal problems now hehehehhehe.

AMDs make really fast workstations. but they have never made a decent server. they will have to do alot of thermal work before someone can expect them to take the load they need to. Their whole thermal design on the 64 is "well you dont run it at 100% all the time. so we let it cool off between those times"

yours would never cool off :P

thanks for the hard work.

[John Robinson]

Thanks for that warning.

Speaking of cooling, those Dells have 7 screaming fans. They really blow. And they're REALLY LOUD! Multiplied by 3. They sat behind me for the duration of their configuration, about 10 days. You will have to speak louder, I'm now partially deaf.

(And I thought my home file server was noisy with 4 HD coolers and misc fans.)

Sure could hear the quiet when the breakers blew. (The breakers blew twice here at home when I was compiling Gentoo on all three boxes. My 650 watt UPS powered them along for literally 5 seconds before it gave up in disgust. LOL, that really sucked!)

[scripter]

unless your looking to get one of the SUN AMD servers with the insane cooling systems stay away from AMD for a server.. you think you have fire/thermal problems now

That's no longer an issue or it isn't an issue with the right setup. We researched a number of issues for a couple of weeks, especially the cooling issues but our concerns were laid to rest. The SuperKool technology keeps the 1u boxes cool - the 2,3 and 4u units stay about the same temperature.

Four years ago I had this setup at home. After too many warm days we moved to a real data center with redundant everything. Heat has always been an issue for us but we're no longer concerned with the AMDs.