[Gllug] Opteron - dual core or two chips?

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Mar 31, 2006 at 07:51:34AM +0100, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 02:14:18AM +0100, Paul Lee wrote:
> > Russell Howe wrote:
> > >http://www.supermicro.com/Aplus/motherboard/Opteron/nForce/H8QC8.cfm
> > 
> > To ensure system stability, a *1000W* (minimum) ATX power supply
> > [8-pin (+12V), 8-pin (+12V) and 24-pin are required]
> > 
> > wow. 1 kw. Data centre's will love you!!!

Well compare the power draw of 1kw for a single 8 CPU box to that
of 4 separate 2 CPU boxes, and I suspect the single 8 CPU box will
come out a winner. Now just add Xen on top of it & you can make it
look like 4 separete 2 CPU boxes again :-)

> Any idea how much power it typically draws?

HP's DL585  servers which can have upto 4x dual-core CPUs come with 
dual 870W power supplies, and according to the data sheet have an 
input draw of 1055 W for a fully speced out box

Regards,
Dan.
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