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Blue_MiSfit · 20th January 2010, 20:17

Instead of an i7 950, consider a dual Xeon 5520 box. This is basically the cheapest way to get 2 Core i7 CPUs for 8 physical and 16 logical cores. Plus, you can but hordes of RAM in it so you can run 20 streams in real-time without worrying about memory usage! A 64 bit OS is obviously mandatory, in any case

You can get a box like this for under 2 grand...

~MiSfit

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Blue_MiSfit Derek Prestegard IRL Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 5,989	Instead of an i7 950, consider a dual Xeon 5520 box. This is basically the cheapest way to get 2 Core i7 CPUs for 8 physical and 16 logical cores. Plus, you can but hordes of RAM in it so you can run 20 streams in real-time without worrying about memory usage! A 64 bit OS is obviously mandatory, in any case You can get a box like this for under 2 grand... ~MiSfit __________________ These are all my personal statements, not those of my employer :)