Quote Originally Posted by Ghostbuster View Post
Nopes, have you ever seen those server rack machines. Talking about air cooling, servers have the best and the noisiest (fans fans everywhere, front to back). 2 processors isn't much effort to keep cool, but 4 processors maybe..
I have to manage few 2U servers at work I know their powerfull and noisy fan's . Of course you get the heat easy out off the case. Still have to cool down the server room.
Quote Originally Posted by Shintai View Post
I can guarantee you Xeon 5500 series servers uses LESS power than 5400 series.
And when you can cool 4 and 8 barcelona chips you can cool anything
What do you compare here X5400 or L5400 with 5500? Do you take the gains caused by no longer using fbdimm's into account?
Shanghai's are a differnt story. I did not go barcelona on the server side, neighter 5400. Need a new dual socket server this year so I'm on a lookout. I'd prefere amd because otherwise I'd loose live migration possibility or pefromance i'f id run vm's in an compatible mode.