Judicious Application Of Explosives

Since the nice 2.66GHz Xeon 3500 servers I wanted are a non-starter (thanks SuperMicro, you weenies), I'm looking at dual-processor boxes.  They'll cost more, but of course they'll deliver more.  But the affordable processor models are the slower end of the range, so we're looking at 2GHz or maybe 2.26GHz.  (But we'll have two of them per server, each quad core and hyperthreaded, so 16 virtual cores.)

Once I get pricing (soon, I hope), I'll twist the arm of the friendly sales people a bit and order the new boxes.

Just as a side note: A 2.53GHz Xeon X5540 costs more than two 2.26GHz X5520's.  There's diminishing returns, and then there's Intel's server pricing structure...

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