Tag Archives: hardware

Noteworthy price difference

Posted by Herman on 18 August, 2008 2 comments

At one of the suppliers I noticed a funny difference today: Intel Xeon QC X3360 2.83GHz, 1333MHz, 12MB, S775, Box: 235,29 euro Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 2.83GHz, 1333MHz, S775, Box: 368,91 euro Mentioned prices are excluding VAT. I am happy its not the other way around, since we stick with Xeon normally. As far [...]

A definite don’t buy if you like hardware support

Posted by Herman on 28 December, 2006 1 comment

We had a night of computer terror: A terrible badly supported intel mainbord (dg965ot). Basicly its chips are not supported in Linux and it just won’t boot. http://dev.osso.nl/peter/blog/2006/12/28/why-intel-dg965ot-sucks-balls/, nice specs, but just buy another board (at least for now). Besides that fedora core 6 x86_64 doesn’t seem to work well with software raid1, it sucks [...]