I want to put together a workstation class system that will be running 24x7.
Please suggest mother board CPU combo in case you have personal experience with such a system.
Thanks.
-- Arun Khan
On Monday 25 October 2010 11:12:22 Arun Khan wrote:
I want to put together a workstation class system that will be running 24x7.
Please suggest mother board CPU combo in case you have personal experience with such a system.
As long as you can periodically clean out the dust almost any mobo cpu combo will work. If you cant clean the dust, the PSU fan will fail first. Next in line will be the CPU fan. Disk life on systems with heavy writes was 3.5 yrs.
-------------------------------------------------- From: "Arun Khan" knura9@gmail.com Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:12 AM To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Please suggest/recommend a workstation class AMD Phenomsolution
I want to put together a workstation class system that will be running 24x7.
Please suggest mother board CPU combo in case you have personal experience with such a system.
Thanks.
-- Arun Khan
We have been using Intel Server Boards 3200SHLC & 3000AH very comfortably 24x7 for past many years 24x7. Latest good experience has been with Gigabyte G31 series and G41 series motherboards. But I don't think you can call them workstation class - if you meant graphics workstations.
reg kshitiz
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Kshitiz kshitij_kotak@hotmail.com wrote:
We have been using Intel Server Boards 3200SHLC & 3000AH very comfortably 24x7 for past many years 24x7. Latest good experience has been with Gigabyte G31 series and G41 series motherboards. But I don't think you can call them workstation class - if you meant graphics workstations.
I have been using Intel mobos with Xeon CPUs in my solutions but lately the only Intel workstation mobos available in the channels are dual processor variety which cost more than the single processor ones. Even though these boards can run with a single cpu, I cannot justify the additional cost of the mobo. My application does not need dual cpu horse power, therefore I was looking for an AMD solution. This system will run in a production environment and reliability is high priority.
Thanks to all for sharing your thoughts. I will see what is available in the market - leaning towards ASUS/MSI workstation boards.
-- Arun Khan
On Monday 25 October 2010 15:57:54 Arun Khan wrote:
On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 12:58 PM, Kshitiz
kshitij_kotak@hotmail.com wrote:
I have been using Intel mobos with Xeon CPUs in my solutions but lately the only Intel workstation mobos available in the channels are dual processor variety which cost more than the single processor ones. Even though these boards can run with a single cpu, I cannot justify the additional cost of the mobo. My application does not need dual cpu horse power, therefore I was looking for an AMD solution. This system will run in a production environment and reliability is high priority.
I have been using ASUS + AMD for most of my systems. However the last two boards performed poorly. One CPU failure within a month, and one with dry caps after two years.
My application does not need dual cpu horse power, therefore I was looking for an AMD solution. This system will run in a production environment and reliability is high priority.
If this is production, I would recommend setting up two inexpensive systems as compared to one workstation class system.
With this, you can purchase two systems for 20k each and have load balancing or manual fail over in case the system fails. Machine tends to fail more often in Mumbai due to environment and climate. On top of it, have a system of archiving data offsite (E.g. Amazon S3 or different branch office), that would save you cost on reliable NAS storage.
This config comes out to be 17k:
Motherboard : Asus M4A78LT-M LE : 3.2 k CPU : AMD Phenom II X2 555 : 5 k RAM : CORSAIR 2 Gb *2 DDR 3 : 3.6 k HDD : 1 TB : 2.8 k Case : Generic ATX + PSU : 2 k
Total : 16.6k
With 4 GB RAM and decent CPU, this can take most SME business roles. If this is going to be a DB server, add 6 k for 2 more hard drives and cofigure them in redundant RAID to increase speed of reads, or bump up the RAM to 16 GB so that HDD is not read in most cases (Oracle / DB2 / SQL Server / PostgresSQL are good with page cache). Just give 12 GB as buffer to DB processes.
-Shamit
On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 9:33 AM, Shamit Verma subs.linux.mum@vshamit.com wrote:
My application does not need dual cpu horse power, therefore I was looking for an AMD solution. This system will run in a production environment and reliability is high priority.
If this is production, I would recommend setting up two inexpensive systems as compared to one workstation class system.
The system will be a graphics workstation, based upon part availability in the Mumbai channel I have selected the following:
ASUS M4A89GTD PRO with AMD Phenom II 1090T @ 3.2 Ghz x6 DDR3 8GB (2 x 4GB) Total 8GB (Expandable to 16GB) VIP ZB100 Workstation Cabinet 650W SMPS
Thanks again to all for your suggestions and recommendations.
-- Arun Khan
------------------------------------------------- From: "Arun Khan" knura9@gmail.com Sent: Monday, October 25, 2010 11:12 AM To: "GNU/Linux Users Group, Mumbai, India" linuxers@mm.ilug-bom.org.in Subject: [ILUG-BOM] Please suggest/recommend a workstation class AMD Phenomsolution
I want to put together a workstation class system that will be running 24x7.
Please suggest mother board CPU combo in case you have personal experience with such a system.
Thanks.
-- Arun Khan
Be sure to use Amacrox Power Supply and a good chassis with 1 additional fan in addition to the CPU fan and SMPS fan. Avoid MicroTower Chassis. Harddisks use Seagate ES/NS Series only for better reliability.
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