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Subject: Re: Choosing CPU for router
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2010/3/16 Andrei Kolu <antik@bsd.ee>:
> 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?
>
Differences between Xeon and Core:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xeon