RE: [OT] (ish) Help looking for mobo recommendation

["Steve Morgan" <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

It'd be interesting to know what the spec of your existing box is.

The new Fujitsu RX300 server that I got the other day averages about 195W
but that's a dual quad-core Xeon, 16GB RAM, 4x250GB RAID 0 and a plethora
of
fans. I thought the power consumption wasn't too bad given that it's
running
Win2K8 with Hyper-V, 3 Win2K8/SharePoint VMs, 2 Win2K8 Active Directory
VMs,
2 Win2K8 SQL Server VMs in a cluster and an OpenFiler (Red-Hat based iSCSI
SAN) VM!

Steve


-----Original Message-----
From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
Paul Gordon
Sent: 11 January 2009 16:42
To: UKHA Group
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] (ish) Help looking for mobo recommendation

I *could*... - but I'd have to buy one... Which would be a shame since I've
got a fairly recent core-2 sitting here idle...

Also, I believe the Intel CPU's currently still have the (perhaps slight,
perhaps even imaginary) edge in both computing performance, and (more
importantly to me), in TDP. One of the main reasons for rebuilding this box
is reduce its power consumption from the current (frankly ludicrous) 200W
to
something a bit more sensible...

Paul G.



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