Best Hardware Solution EQIIX 6 box?
Hi everyone,
Would like to say thank you to the community before hand .
I have worked in IT for some time and was fairly strong on the hardware front until about 2 years ago. I am reading everything I can and trying to determine which direction to go for a (hopefully) single computer 6 box solution. I have questions:
1. Can a single powerful computer run this many instances?
2. Will a AMD Phenom II X6 be more useful for this than say a quad core CPU?
3. Can a graphics cards in SLI work well for this solution, or should I shoot for a single larger card, IE 2x GTX460 or 1x GTX480
4. Can two inexpensive SSD HDD in a raid config for speed serve up 6 clients at once?
5. lastly is it my imagination or does the current generation of DDR3 tripple channel memory motherboards seem sort of... unreliable? I read about a LOT of them failing and nothing stands out as a very good reliable powerful motherboard for a AM3, SLI mobo, does anyone have a suggestion for a solution for this?
6. How much memory might be necessary for this app?
My current notion is something like this:
1. CPU AMD Phenom II1075T X6, this cheaper core over clocks higher than the 1090T apparently.
2. Undecided mobo, nothing out there looks really stellar
3. 8 to 16 gigs of memory
4. 2x small SSD in raid for speed (if that is possible)
5. Sli GTX460 1GB or single GTX480
Thank you in advance for input
Would like to say thank you to the community before hand .
I have worked in IT for some time and was fairly strong on the hardware front until about 2 years ago. I am reading everything I can and trying to determine which direction to go for a (hopefully) single computer 6 box solution. I have questions:
1. Can a single powerful computer run this many instances?
2. Will a AMD Phenom II X6 be more useful for this than say a quad core CPU?
3. Can a graphics cards in SLI work well for this solution, or should I shoot for a single larger card, IE 2x GTX460 or 1x GTX480
4. Can two inexpensive SSD HDD in a raid config for speed serve up 6 clients at once?
5. lastly is it my imagination or does the current generation of DDR3 tripple channel memory motherboards seem sort of... unreliable? I read about a LOT of them failing and nothing stands out as a very good reliable powerful motherboard for a AM3, SLI mobo, does anyone have a suggestion for a solution for this?
6. How much memory might be necessary for this app?
My current notion is something like this:
1. CPU AMD Phenom II1075T X6, this cheaper core over clocks higher than the 1090T apparently.
2. Undecided mobo, nothing out there looks really stellar
3. 8 to 16 gigs of memory
4. 2x small SSD in raid for speed (if that is possible)
5. Sli GTX460 1GB or single GTX480
Thank you in advance for input