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Why doesn't anyone here use opterons?
skirtTight
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I think there are more, we had also but moved it back to its corporate cluster and replaced everything with intels in the VPSes for the masses business. Was a beast 48 real cores.
Might have something to do with how AMD is still rocking 32nm, like it's three years ago.
OVH use it.
You're supposed to go for the best price/results ratio afaik
TDP is a factor too. A 4 sockets 48 cores beast is producing some heat.
But, yeah, amd is very stable and cheap for the power. Just you have to stick with it if you intend to build large clusters, I am not sure it is a good idea, even if i am AMD fan.
We use AMD's line extensively in supermicro systems, and have been very happy with the results...
It's AMD and I use Intel! (just a personal preference)
Amd needs to increase its focus back to servers.. Slightly older models now.
I have one node with dual Opteron 4274 HE's (16 cores total). For the core count and the fact that I can pack in 256GB of RAM I am not unhappy with the purchase.
Oliver you should upload a passmark results on one of those :>
The node's busy, so no sorry.
Besides I don't want to scare people. A wise poster here once said that anything but Xeons don't look professional and can make clients run away!
ProviderService does.
Actually I take using AMD as a sign that a provider actually knows what they're doing, as opposed to "herp derp, no one's been fired for buying Intel yet".
Well assuming we are talking about Intel E5 grade CPU, which is up to today still based on 32nm as well.
@Damian
Because they are slow cores.
Is IPXCore using AMD?
As far as I know, he has some Nodes with AMD CPU(s)
If the 96M nodes are AMD's I change my opinion about AMD's right now.
I don't use them because I had a amd home computer that was slow
One of these ? http://www.homecomputer.de/
Slow computer can be from many causes, most frequent low ram, then slow or fragmented hard disk (for windows), misconfigured one (IDE emulation), malware, things like those.
Any modern CPU (post 2006) should be enough for the way the computer feels even with w7, no matter the make.
Sure, for mining bitcoins, will probably be very slow, but for browsing and everyday activities, will do.
Oh, this is why people were avoiding AMD. Because @superpilesos's computer is slow!
That wasn't a serious response.
Many applications are still not making use of multiple cores, I'd prefer 4 of intel's fast E3 cores than 16 2ghz amd
I thought I read that the latest bitcoin client doesn't even support CPU-based mining anymore...only GPU-based.
Regardless, the world seems to have moved beyond CPU, GPU, and even FPGA for bitcoin mining: https://www.weusecoins.com/en/mining-guide
We use both E3's and Opterons. I can't really say that one or the other is better or worse. E3's are intentionally crippled to only address 32gb of ram, but none of our servers have over 20gb of ram in use, so it ends up being a non-issue.
Opterons have more true cores, but at a slower clock rate. If you need high clock rate CPUs, go with E3s. If you're selling to a parallel processing crowd (think VPS), go with Opteron.
Someone on here posted that VPS companies aren't "serious" because they generally aren't using E5's.... I don't see the point in using E5's unless you enjoy throwing money away, since with the exception of @miTgiB, it seems like most E5's are crippled with SATA drives. Like putting a Ferrari engine in your Daewoo.
E5 does not perform well for the price imo. I`m buying E3 V2 CPUs at the moment.
This is our opinion too. If there's anything we need that an E3 cannot handle, it gets an Opteron instead. I've been quite pleased with Opteron 6348's.
Datashack can't seem to keep Opertons in stock. I was watching one for weeks to order, but they never got any in stock.
@Damian - This has been our opinion as well. E3's score far better in UnixBench, and for anything else the Opterons provide a good bang for the buck. We don't have any Opterons yet, however we will soon enough. The E5 doesn't provide great value for what it costs.
I recall KiloServe used 48-core beasts. Their VPSes were indeed very speedy (I had one for ~1 month).