GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

[Tom Browder]

On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
...
> I'm looking at two difference potential boxes and looking
...
> Config 1 ($2974):
> - 2x Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) L5420 2.50GHz 1333FSB 12MB Cache (50W)
>  - Low Voltage
> - 4x 4GB PC2-5400 667MHz FB-DIMM
> - 4x 750GB SATA 7200RPM - 3.5" - Seagate Barracuda(R) ES.2
> Config 2 ($3468):
> - 2x Quad-Core AMD Opteron™ Model 2378 - 2.4GHz 6MB L3 Cache (75W)
> - 8x 2GB PC2-5300 667MHz DDR2 ECC Registered
> - 4x 750GB SATA 7200RPM - 3.5" - Seagate Barracuda(R) ES.2
>
> Any suggestions or comments on these configs?  I really don't
> have a good feel for the differences between the various CPUs,
> both within a line and between Intel and AMD.  In particular I
> suspect I'll just be running vmware-server on the base box and

I like the ECC memory for config 2--highly recommended feature.

-Tom