Recent content by alwayslors

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    New here.

    Thanks for the welcome Markess. I got the information about the hex core opteron from the final bios update for the dl585 g5 which says it enables the support for them so as I understand it is officialy supported just not on the quick specs form. I'm not likley to run the server heavily, it...
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    New here.

    Thanks for your insight i386 Sadly sometimes beggars can't be choosers though. I'm not entirely sure that the AMD based quad chip system will be any less power hungry anyway. My wife likes the xeon based one because its quiet but there is a problem with the onboard hdd controller which is why I...
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    New here.

    Hello everyone I'm Lor and I'm new here. I trained as a computer technician and network engineer in the mid 90's when I was just out of college. I have regularly built and maintained home networks since then as the technology has improved but now I'm adding a dedicated server to the system...