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Old 10-20-10, 02:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Flatballer
trying to get 32 bit software to run on a 64 bit server. Should be simple, since the dual X5550 processors in these servers is a fully backwards compatible x64 processor.

If I may geek out for a moment, these servers are so badass. Dual X5550 Quad Core server processors, @ 2.66 GHz, for a total of 8 cores, and all for only $1200 per CPU.

16 Gigabytes of fast server RAM. 1 TB HD. That's a lot of power.
The amount of on-chip cache is what makes these things so awesome. Going all the way to RAM is so slow.
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