Re: GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

2008-12-23 Thread Herbert Thoma
Derek Atkins schrieb: > Hey all, > You might not have noticed but the GnuCash "everything" servercrashed > multiple times over the weekend.. These issues havebeen happening more > frequently, and it's clearly a hardwareissue. It COULD be a bad stick of > RAM, or it could be amobo issue. I cou

Re: GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

2008-12-23 Thread Frank H. Ellenberger
Hi, Am Dienstag 23. Dezember 2008 17:52:29 schrieb Tom Browder: > This comparison link > > (http://compare.intel.com/pcc/default.aspx?familyid=5&culture=en-US&iid=pro >ducts_xeon5000+body_compare) ... and for AMD: http://products.amd.com/en-us/OpteronCPUResult.aspx?f1=Third-Generation+AMD+Opteron%

Re: GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

2008-12-23 Thread Derek Atkins
Quoting Tom Browder : > On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: >> "Tom Browder" writes: > ... >>> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > ... >>> I like the ECC memory for config 2--highly recommended feature. >> >> For some reason this company

Re: GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

2008-12-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: ... > I'm looking at two difference potential boxes and looking ... > Config 1 ($2974): > - 2x Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) L5420 2.50GHz 1333FSB 12MB Cache (50W) > - Low Voltage > - 4x 4GB PC2-5400 667MHz FB-DIMM > - 4x 750GB SATA 7200RPM - 3.5"

Re: GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

2008-12-23 Thread Tom Browder
On Tue, Dec 23, 2008 at 9:56 AM, Derek Atkins wrote: > "Tom Browder" writes: ... >> On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: ... >> I like the ECC memory for config 2--highly recommended feature. > > For some reason this company does > not provide ECC

Re: GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

2008-12-23 Thread Derek Atkins
"Tom Browder" writes: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 8:04 PM, Derek Atkins wrote: > ... >> I'm looking at two difference potential boxes and looking > ... >> Config 1 ($2974): >> - 2x Quad-Core Intel(R) Xeon(R) L5420 2.50GHz 1333FSB 12MB Cache (50W) >> - Low Voltage >> - 4x 4GB PC2-5400 667MHz FB-DI

GnuCash Hardware renewal: call for input

2008-12-22 Thread Derek Atkins
Hey all, You might not have noticed but the GnuCash "everything" server crashed multiple times over the weekend.. These issues have been happening more frequently, and it's clearly a hardware issue. It COULD be a bad stick of RAM, or it could be a mobo issue. I could spend time trying to debug