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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 1:43 pm    Post subject: SB150 or U80 4cpu ? Reply with quote

Ok, My company is buying me a new workstation.

The two I have narrowed it down too (same price) are:

SB150, 650mhz, 2GB ram
U80, 4X450MHZ, 4GB ram

conventional wisdom is telling me to opt for the U80 ...
the box will be running solaris primarilly (tho I intend to try dualboot) and under solaris will be running a SunPCI card.

Thoughts?
Advice?
Anecdotal accounts of U80 performance?
I dont have too much time to decide lol.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:13 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I think the decision is pretty obvious... IDE vs. SCSI, single vs. quad, PCI vs. UPA framebuffer, smaller vs. bigger cache.
Anything else? :-)
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 5:28 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

ok, now the real question:

U80 4x450
or
SB1000 2x750

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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:43 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I'd go with the SB1000, it all boils down to what you'll be running and how much parallelism it has.
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 7:52 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, its for a desktop at work .. and considering that I run an almost identical SB1000 at home (sersiouly, almost identical .. i just have a better framebuffer) I've been able to justify that I "know" how it performs etc etc... :-/

damn PHBs ...
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PostPosted: Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:55 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The only advice I would give (not having used any of those models) is to give ay Sun with an IDE bus the boot.

The U80 sounds nice - but the SB1000 sounds much better ;)


Personally I dont use anything that would make good use of 4 CPU's - it would be the SB1000 for me.
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PostPosted: Tue Dec 06, 2005 8:25 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I've been running SB1000 2x900MHz with 4G ram about a month or so, and I must tell you I'm in love :D

For example, stage1 in around 40 minutes is not bad at all IMO ;)

just grab some speedy framebuffer and you should be fine with your new SB1000.
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