[Systems] Server proposals

[Chris Ball]

Hi,

   > Dilinger recommends http://www.serversdirect.com/ , I think he
   > just bought another machine from them.  Here's a machine that you
   > can get 12G RAM/1T disk*2 on for $1668 (using their own RAM/disk,
   > rather than from newegg, so maybe can save more if you use newegg
   > for those):

I should add that the i7-920 in this machine is much faster than the
Xeon E5504 -- Passmark score of 5590 for the i7-920 vs. 3026 for the
E5504, so that's 85% higher for the i7.

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

- Chris.
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Chris Ball   <cjb at laptop.org>
One Laptop Per Child