[geeks] WTB: 16GB RAM dual or quad x86 system

[Patrick Giagnocavo]

On Fri, Apr 22, 2005 at 03:09:44PM -0400, Nick wrote:
> Have you thought about an Opteron system?  It'll be a little more
> expensive, but you can run it in real 64bit mode, and it'll be Amazingly
> fast.  Do you need this much memory for speed, or just a poorly written
> app?

There are not many used Opteron boxes out there at the moment...

I don't need a lot of CPU, but each client's setup uses about 300MB of
real RAM, and peformance drops quickly if the system runs out of RAM
of course.

--Patrick