cpu/server buying help

[McBunny]

right i need to buy 3 new servers the one im specing up at the mo is going to be an exchange box

from a choice of cpu's what would you choose

Xeon® 5150, 4MB Cache, 2.66GHz

Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5320, 2x4MB Cache, 1.86GHz

dual Xeon® 5150, 4MB Cache, 2.66GHz

or dual Quad Core Intel® Xeon® E5320, 2x4MB Cache, 1.86GHz

it will be about 60 users 4 gig of ram split backplane using raid 1 and 5 2x73 gig 3x 146 gig

 

[McBunny]

come on you lot

 

[Rasclart]

Dude do you want a contact for a supplier of who does HP Servers. VERY well priced and I am sure he can at least give you some quotes fella?

 

[Lee]

Dude do you want a contact for a supplier of who does HP Servers. VERY well priced and I am sure he can at least give you some quotes fella?

When we were poor we used to get Dell servers from here: http://www1.serversource.co.uk/

Now we just order direct from HP. We get up to 50% off some stuff because of the amount of kit we order. I'd guess we bought one or two to run World of Warcraft!!!

 

[Rasclart]

Dual Quad Core is pretty pointless though. The software has to have some coding to use all 8 cores, which NOTHING does at the moment.

I would go for a Quad core or even a Dual Xeon. Exchange is pretty intensive but if its PURELY an exchange box dual quad would be major overkill

 

[McBunny]

i know but it sounds good lol

i decided just to go dual dual core its cheaper so i get to buy more stuff lol

now just need racking, kvm, lto drive, sun box, and basically everything else to set up a new server room oh the fun