Opinion on using AMD Phenom II x6 1090t with Gigabyte 890BPA-UD3H and 8GB DDR-3 as a WebServer.

[Edwin L. Culp W.]

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 8:13 AM, Mark Felder <feld at feld.me> wrote:
> On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 07:31:05 -0500, <eculp at encontacto.net> wrote:
>
>> In addition to having no information on the CPU as a server lack of
>> comfort with 6 cores and memory 8GB of memory that I am having a problem
>> with.  I am not a gamer but I have always assumed that a gaming machine
>> needs the most aggressive hardware.  I have also seen this processor with 12
>> GB rather than 8 which, in my ignorance sounds better.
>
> I have /basically/ the same machine at home I use as my FreeBSD and
> occasionally gaming machine with 12GB of RAM. It runs FreeBSD *very* well.
> If you care a lot about stability though the downside is that it's not
> server class hardware, no ECC RAM, etc. But for a machine with a lot of
> cores and memory -- have at it!
>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
> Mark

Thanks, Mark.  I see you have 12G.  I'm totally ignorant on the
distribution of memory for the 6 cores if there is such a thing.  Is
it advantageous to have a multiple of 6 when ordering memory? (12, 18,
24)

As far as stability is concerned for a webserver, I don't see it as a
major concern.   I'm sure some of my older machines of the last 15
years were less stable even though they all had ECC, raid, etc.
Please correct me if I am wrong.  My perspective from Mexico, I'm sure
is very different than if I were in the US or Europe, etc.

Thanks,

ed