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- Oct 23, 2004
- Location
- Hillbillyville
So.. For the dually crowd, what would you choose? I am at a crossroads.. not really sure which direction I am going..
The "other stuff":
Antec 3700B
Sparkle 550watt eps12v
4x160gb Seagate's in RAID 0+1
2 Liteon CD drives
HDA Mystique 7.1 soundcard -> swans m200
Watercooling (g4's or 6002's, 1 or 2 BIX120mm, depending on space)
So.. which system would you choose to house those accessories?
NCCH-DL w/ 2x2.4ghz M0 Xeons (at lets say.. 3.6ghz) , 2x1gb ram (either Corsair TwinX XMS if the price comes back down, or OCZ peroformance) , eVga 6800ultra.
or..
K8N-DL w/ 2xOpteron 244 or 246 (lets say.. 2.4ghz) , 2x512mb ram (OCZ server memory) , X800pro? xt? something around 300 bucks..
My path was going to be the NCCH-DL for a long time. I figured I could upgrade down the road to noconas (or maybe even dual core if they make it backwards compatible) when they get cheap. After that, I planned to jump over to opteron, assuming that the options over there were good.
Now, however, I am at a turning point - it seems that I could pretty easily just not get an NCCH-DL, sell my M0's, change videocards, and get different ram. I could sell my m0's for what I paid, and for another 100 or so find a deal on opterons (or get lower performing opterons for a closer price) I would loose about 50 bucks or so on the motherboard, and gain about 50-100 on the ram (although I would have less for a while, until I just pop some more in down the road for some numa goodness). I'd just sell my videocard, and buy something for the price I can get.
So.. what would you guys do? With this computer, I mostly read ocforums :-] I also do some audio recording (probably in favor of the xeons) and I game (probably in favor of the opterons). Either system will probably suit me fine for all three activities (although I have from time to time opened up 3 ocforum windows.. I think that hyperthreading really helped ;-] )
Whats the verdict? Which is the cooler system? :-]
The "other stuff":
Antec 3700B
Sparkle 550watt eps12v
4x160gb Seagate's in RAID 0+1
2 Liteon CD drives
HDA Mystique 7.1 soundcard -> swans m200
Watercooling (g4's or 6002's, 1 or 2 BIX120mm, depending on space)
So.. which system would you choose to house those accessories?
NCCH-DL w/ 2x2.4ghz M0 Xeons (at lets say.. 3.6ghz) , 2x1gb ram (either Corsair TwinX XMS if the price comes back down, or OCZ peroformance) , eVga 6800ultra.
or..
K8N-DL w/ 2xOpteron 244 or 246 (lets say.. 2.4ghz) , 2x512mb ram (OCZ server memory) , X800pro? xt? something around 300 bucks..
My path was going to be the NCCH-DL for a long time. I figured I could upgrade down the road to noconas (or maybe even dual core if they make it backwards compatible) when they get cheap. After that, I planned to jump over to opteron, assuming that the options over there were good.
Now, however, I am at a turning point - it seems that I could pretty easily just not get an NCCH-DL, sell my M0's, change videocards, and get different ram. I could sell my m0's for what I paid, and for another 100 or so find a deal on opterons (or get lower performing opterons for a closer price) I would loose about 50 bucks or so on the motherboard, and gain about 50-100 on the ram (although I would have less for a while, until I just pop some more in down the road for some numa goodness). I'd just sell my videocard, and buy something for the price I can get.
So.. what would you guys do? With this computer, I mostly read ocforums :-] I also do some audio recording (probably in favor of the xeons) and I game (probably in favor of the opterons). Either system will probably suit me fine for all three activities (although I have from time to time opened up 3 ocforum windows.. I think that hyperthreading really helped ;-] )
Whats the verdict? Which is the cooler system? :-]
