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The one that Tyan makes. Its expensive but worth it.

Tyan S2875 ($240)
MSI K8T Master2-FAR ($208)

IWILL DK8N nVidia nForce 3 250pro read review here


You might have to research NUMA if you don't know what that is, and why its such an advantage. But its the Best Opteron Board on the market ATM.

But, its expensive @ a mere $470. But the processors are already so much, and you want the best right? Get it at Newegg.com

If your gonna run an actual server os, like 2003 or etc, then AMD is a very bad decision. All of the MS server OS's are entirely optimzed for Intel, We have about 3700 or so Intel servers and like one AMD in our lab and it has issues most of the time. Linux will server you well however.

Is your AMD an Opteron based system, if not that would account for it. And if so, then there is something up. Opteron has been proven time and time again as being faster then the Xeon provessor. Read any review on any tech site any where. Saying that its because of Windows is complete BS, all those sites are using windows too.

Opteron > Xeon

Im a Huge AMD fan but Ill be honest.

Overall the Opteron is better than the Xeon but the Xeon does do better at some tasks. From what Ive seen most of the time the Intel only wins at things optimized for Xeon/Intel.

As far as proven, it's not in the real world. Plenty of numbers to back that up, tour any large data center you wish, you won't find any out there (faster is not always better.) I'm saying that Microsoft (my former employer) is a close bedfellow ith HP, and Microsoft creates code, and runs mainly on HP servers, which are entirely Intel based. Hence the software is written for the system of preference.


The other big issue, and probably the reason why we have 10 floors of Intel here is that AMD will not guarentee what's refered to as 4 9's system. Meaning that in any given month Intel guarentees only 4 min of downtime due to any type of CPU issue.

In general I can count the times in the last year that our core datacenter has lost a proc anywhere, I think about twice.

Also two proc servers are considered small bones, Intel is giving 8 and 16 way systems now with support for very large amounts of ram. It's a bridge AMD has never crossed since their market is more "home pc" than anything else. It's just an observation, but I work with many of the bigger companies out there with huge data centers, and none of them have any AMD. It's just not yet caught on as "server class" stuff.

I am politely saying, that AMD has a LOOOONG way tpo go before they can stab at Intels stronghold on the server world.