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Re: Betamax man has struck again
« Reply #30 on: 12 December 2006, 20:56:26 »
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That explains a bit....

Yeah, I've seen the specs of those new SPARC's. They look pretty awesome. Datacentre bills will be a heck of a lot lower! Will just take time to deploy, since they cost money to invest in.

AMD are also doing well in the server market with their Opteron chips. I think the predominantly Intel thing is a lot to do with the fact companies like DELL, HP and the likes have contracts which will allow them to package Intel chips only. That has recently changed, since they obviously noticed a clear price difference in the two vendors with AMD being the cheaper (which could explain why they, as you say, aren't quite as quick as a pentium).

Also the new Core 2 Duo chips look pretty damn amazing for the desktop. They trounce the competition by far.
Both Dell and HP have offered AMD Opeterons for a while (on servers).  Neither company has had much success - the Xeons easily outperform them.  AMD do not have a large market share in server sector, but do well in low cost hosting shops due to low costs...

AMD are/soon releasing a quad core processor but they said it will be for servers to begin with
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Re: Betamax man has struck again
« Reply #31 on: 12 December 2006, 20:57:51 »
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Re: Betamax man has struck again
« Reply #32 on: 12 December 2006, 21:01:01 »
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I take that as an insult  >:( - seeing as many people in IT just talk 'dangle berries'. And play Wank Word Bingo all day  >:(  >:(

I work in I.T ya know hope u didn't mean me!!! ;) ;) ;) ;)
So you know exactly what I'm talking about...   ...I am lucky, I work in a really good team of truely knowledgable guys, willing to help out when I get stuck.
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Re: Betamax man has struck again
« Reply #33 on: 12 December 2006, 21:06:27 »
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3 Phase computers!!  :o

That is totally insane! haha
Not uncommon for the older big buggers, less common now...

And how about a £1000/month leccy bill for the server room? !!
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« Reply #34 on: 12 December 2006, 21:12:51 »
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3 Phase computers!!  :o

That is totally insane! haha
Not uncommon for the older big buggers, less common now...

And how about a £1000/month leccy bill for the server room? !!
 :o
We don't deal with little server rooms, consider tizzy bill for each data centre....
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« Reply #35 on: 12 December 2006, 21:12:59 »
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3 Phase computers!!  :o

That is totally insane! haha
Not uncommon for the older big buggers, less common now...

And how about a £1000/month leccy bill for the server room? !!
 :o

I was thinking that....that's a lot of juice to be using day in day out! :o
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« Reply #36 on: 12 December 2006, 21:14:19 »
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3 Phase computers!!  :o

That is totally insane! haha
Not uncommon for the older big buggers, less common now...

And how about a £1000/month leccy bill for the server room? !!
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I was thinking that....that's a lot of juice to be using day in day out! :o
Probably half in running computers, other half in cooling......
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Re: Betamax man has struck again
« Reply #37 on: 12 December 2006, 21:16:23 »
Would something using that much power be fluid cooled to the outside atmosphere, or just a combination of fans and air con?
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« Reply #38 on: 12 December 2006, 21:18:33 »
All mid range stuff (ie the standard web server) would not be liquid cooled.  Don't know much about them, but some of the mainframe stuff is liquid cooled...
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« Reply #39 on: 12 December 2006, 21:34:34 »
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I take that as an insult  >:( - seeing as many people in IT just talk 'dangle berries'. And play Wank Word Bingo all day  >:(  >:(

I work in I.T ya know hope u didn't mean me!!! ;) ;) ;) ;)
So you know exactly what I'm talking about...   ...I am lucky, I work in a really good team of truely knowledgable guys, willing to help out when I get stuck.

I take that as they're not very helpful?
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Re: Betamax man has struck again
« Reply #40 on: 12 December 2006, 21:43:52 »
You must know the types of people I mean, really common in IT - people who talk a load of crap because they dont know shit, and often unwilling (unable) to help when you're stuck...   ...fortunately my colleagues are really good/knowledgable/helpful :)
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« Reply #41 on: 13 December 2006, 10:38:33 »
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That explains a bit....

Yeah, I've seen the specs of those new SPARC's. They look pretty awesome. Datacentre bills will be a heck of a lot lower! Will just take time to deploy, since they cost money to invest in.

AMD are also doing well in the server market with their Opteron chips. I think the predominantly Intel thing is a lot to do with the fact companies like DELL, HP and the likes have contracts which will allow them to package Intel chips only. That has recently changed, since they obviously noticed a clear price difference in the two vendors with AMD being the cheaper (which could explain why they, as you say, aren't quite as quick as a pentium).

Also the new Core 2 Duo chips look pretty damn amazing for the desktop. They trounce the competition by far.
Both Dell and HP have offered AMD Opeterons for a while (on servers).  Neither company has had much success - the Xeons easily outperform them.  AMD do not have a large market share in server sector, but do well in low cost hosting shops due to low costs...

AMD are/soon releasing a quad core processor but they said it will be for servers to begin with

Intel already have a quad core CPU on sale...

http://www.ebuyer.com/product/119918/product_info/rb/23718558336

sexy! not so sexy price though.
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