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Subject: Re: Choosing CPU for router
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2010/3/16 Jon Otterholm <jon.otterholm@ide.resurscentrum.se>:
> Hi.
>
> In the process to build a new router and want to choose the best possible
> CPU for the job.
>
> Narrowed it down to the following:
>
> Intel Q9650 3,0Ghz
> Intel i7-965/975 3,2Ghz/3,33Ghz
>
> What would be the benefit from a Xeon?
>
> Motherboard: Supermicro X8SBI-4LN.
> RAM: 4GB
>
> The router will be running IPFW and Dummynet for traffic-shaping. Along with
> that, standard services like dhcpd.
>
> Any thoughts appreciated.
>
>

Xeons usually got more cache memory on board and mean to work on
servers (read: stable). And of course there should be ECC memory.
AFAIK you can't install more than one CORE cpu onto multicpu
motherboard but you can do so with XEON.

Did you mean this:
http://www.supermicro.com/products/motherboard/Xeon3000/X58/X8STi-LN4.cfm
board?