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by james schroer 1 view

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Are you using this servers in production? We are in the process of purchasing some new severs and are really looking at these. HP now has them in their Proliant line and aftering configuring two identical systems Inte Xeon and AMD Optron it came out that the Optron was about $2500 cheaper. Thats quite a bit for a $10700 server.

So let me know if you are using and for what applications and if it's in an HP or other sever and how you think it's running.

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by hal 9000

From previous experience the AMD's have been anything but stable.

One business which I just had to put them into replaced them after 6 months of constant problems and a projected loss of $1,500,000.00 AU.

Till I've had some time to play with a few AMD units which don't cost me anything to borrow for a reasonable length of time I'm sticking to the Xeon's at least I know that they will work.

This guy had 2 of these on Tyan M'Boards one running SUSE 10 {I think from memory} Linux and the other Windows 2003 Enterprise Server both fell over at least once a day. The real problem was the Linux one as it was the gateway to the outside world so every time it went down they lost all their web browsing and e-mail.

Col ]:)

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