Sun Fire V40z: Four Opterons in a 3U

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• dougSF30 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  Typo page 1: "In January, Sun sent us a V40z demonstration unit that was complete with four Opteron 250s and 8GB of PC2700."
  
  It should be "four Opteron 850's"
  
  Also, page 3: "The older 130nm "CG" stepping on Opteron 8xx only allows for PC2700 memory"
  
  This is not true, generally. I don't know about the v40z, but CG Opterons can use PC3200 no problem.
  
  See here, for example: http://www.spec.org/osg/cpu2000/results/res2004q3/...
  
  

• Ardan - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  I agree with #16. Fantastic work, Kristopher! I have a family member that works for a division of Lockheed-Martin and they are dealing with Sun more and more now and he enjoys your articles when I show them to him. He said a few weeks ago that he shows some of these articles to co-workers because of the thorough evaluations and it is helping them to decide whether or not to outfit their systems with Serial ATA drives (for Destroyers) and now with Opteron systems from Sun.
  
  Good work! ;)

• tfranzese - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  Excellent work Kris.

• KristopherKubicki - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  Something is wrong with the DB graphs: i am fixing it now.
  
  Kristopher

• Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  http://www.newisys.com/products/4300.html

• Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  This server is aperantly made by Nhttp://www.newisys.com/products/4300.html

• Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  OOPS, this is suppost to go where the blank post is.
  
  To the author or whom it may concern: A bad link is located on page 3 and reads:
  
  two Samsung 1GB PC2700 – link to Samsung.jpg>

• Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

• Googer - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  I want Game Benchmarks too! (just for fun though)

• nourdmrolNMT1 - Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - link

  database benchmarks arent workin here either.
  
  MIKE