Quad core processors ? Really doing well?

Conor I would love to know how much power that beast of a server is pulling!!!!

We have been using quad cores in servers for a while now - you gotta love them :)

Intel I7's also look promising however it will be a while before we start offering them
 
csn-uk said:
Quad cores are good value I must admit, not too sure on the I7’s just yet after road testing them a bit more that might change but who knows.

That said to match the performance of my current rig with an I7 would be costly (dual quad core (4GHz x8) with 16gb ddr3) so I’m not yet sold. Although that may change as the prices come down and the over clocking attempts go up :devil:
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That is a very nice setup you have there. I would love that setup for my office server. :)
 
csn-uk said:
Quad cores are good value I must admit, not too sure on the I7’s just yet after road testing them a bit more that might change but who knows.

That said to match the performance of my current rig with an I7 would be costly (dual quad core (4GHz x8) with 16gb ddr3) so I’m not yet sold. Although that may change as the prices come down and the over clocking attempts go up :devil:
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That machine must scream. I can hear it in Saint Louis. LOL
 
Steve-Hostirian said:
That machine must scream. I can hear it in Saint Louis. LOL
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Fortunately not it is the first and only pc I own to use liquid nitrogen cooling, it can run at around -3 to -4 if ramped up with what I would consider a standard case, fortunately Intel have a large office within walking distance of my home within Swindon (UK) giving me the chance to talk to the Intel guys from time to time and go direct for support or hardware problems as a quick beer usually sweetens the deal :D

As they're often testing various things out in there some of which they wont disucss other things they will obviously :)
 
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we offer them aswell and they are about 40% faster then the dual core's
and yes the i7 is already available also with us and in our testing they are super nice :)
and now we can sell them at $227 a month so its good and affordable
 
When we started offering quad, we were a little skeptical as most customers are looking for lower end.
But what do you know, we actually sold 2 with another order on the way.

All I can says is there are customers at both end of the long tail
 
handsonhosting said:
We've recently been playing with a Dual CPU Quad Core system. (Two Xeon 5400 Quad Core CPUs).

Talk about power!! It was needed for a large ecomerce site that we've been dealing with to allow faster database indexing and searching. We're also running RAID 50 on the machine and 32GB memory. Need power? It's got it! ;) Not cheap, but when the client says "i need" rather than "i want" - you do what's necessary.
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WOW, 32 GB RAM! That's a mighty fine machine you got there. :thumbup:

All that power just for one site? Is your client NewEgg!? :D
 
Dedicated hosting really took off in a big way during the Celeron/Pentium years and I expect that we'll be seeing those servers available for quite some time. They're definitely powerful enough for the vast majority of sites and will be a good, cheap, option for those who have small sites but still want to manage their own servers.
 
CPUs with 6 cores are due to come out in Quarter 3.

I wonder how quickly it will take for these to hit the hosting market. This is where they are targeted for as well.
 
We are running Nehalem Quads now and the drop in CPU "load" has been amazing. I wish I could get the six core in a single CPU version but have only seen them in "monster" servers designed for VPS with dual six core CPU's and huge drive arrays to handle lots of VPS accounts.

Before the end of the year 8 core CPU's are supposed to be coming allowing a quad CPU server to have 32 cores--unbelievable.
With the performance increase we have seen with the Nehalem quads I can't even imagine those, even with dozens of VPS clients. The resources available to each VPS will be greatly increased or the host can choose to put more VPS's on every server.
AMD is supposed to have something along the lines of 8 cores "up their sleeve" and they claim to have prototype 32 core chips using a new technology beyond silicon to allow the hige increase in the same space/power "footprint".

These days with price points where they are I can't see using less than some type Quads unless you were doing a dedicated for just one site hat needed the disk space but not the CPU power.

Now with DDR3 RAM the disks are the bottleneck and SAS drives are still expensive, As they are coming down I plan for our next expansion to be dual CPU (whatever Nehalem is available that suits our requirements) with SAS disks to increase the ability of the disk to keep up with the CPU power. Current SAS technology gets the best performance at 73 or 146 GB --too small for all the CPU/RAM power available so we're waiting for bigger/faster SAS drives to become more efficient and less expensive then the processors--wel who knows what they will have then?
 
I have been using a Q6600 in the past and it has quite a bit of performance increase over the E7400 I'm on now. With that in mind, I've always liked how quads perform better than duals and with making that step into the i7's is going to probably make a bigger difference.
 
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