As both Rock and Niagara 2 use FB-DIMMS this are really good news: FB-DIMMs have an addtional circuit called Advanced Memory Buffer. The higher consumption of FB-DIMMS can be credited to this AMB. IDT now annouced a
25 percent more efficient circuit. Okay, thats only between 1 and 2 Watt per DIMM, but you have 16, maybe 32 DIMMs in your server, and thus 16 to 32 AMBs. And from a system view, this really counts.
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Wed, 20.08.2008 11:51
There is a new download for X4 150, X4150 Tools and Drivers C D 2.0, which seems to contain ELOM- and ILOM-firmware. [...]
Wed, 20.08.2008 10:27
Die Wege des Product Engineeri ngs sind unergründlich. Muss i ch ganz ehrlich gesehen: Weiss ich so nicht ...
Wed, 20.08.2008 10:25
Maxing out the Opteron isn´t a problem, as the system would be an SunRay server as well .. .
Wed, 20.08.2008 09:54
"i was afraid of being forced to buy Intel for my next homes erver" Well, if you cannot max out a Opteron with u [...]
Wed, 20.08.2008 08:20
schicke Systeme, koennten mir auch gefallen. Aber warum sind die PCIe-Switches auf einmal von IDT, nicht mehr von [...]