2xE5620 or 1xE5630

[Dan Ritter]

On Sat, Oct 16, 2010 at 03:20:40PM -0400, Stephen Adler wrote:
> Hi BLU!
> 
> I'm thinking of scratching my itch by upgrading my desktop. I'm settling 
> on the 5600 based Xeon system with a supermicro x8dtl board. The 
> question I'm pondering is whether I should spend $570 on one E5630 Xeon 
> processor or spend $770 on two E5620 Xeon processors.... My goal is to 
> have a desktop in which I don't have to worry about how many virtual 
> system I have running at once... Well to a finite extent... 2 - 4 
> virtual systems.... It seems that spending an extra $200 and doubling 
> the number of cores but sacrificing .18 GHz may be worth it....
> 
> Any comments?

Life is uncertain: eat dessert first.

Or, more specifically -- it's a good bet that whatever RAM you
buy will still be available 2 years from now when you decide
that you really need some more. It's not a great bet that you
can pick up a matching CPU 2 years out.

Get a second CPU now. If the budget is tight, drop storage first
-- you're unlikely to need all of it at once, and it tends to
drop in price faster and more consistently than anything else.

-dsr-


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