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Red-Drop
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 Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 2:49 am Post subject: Installing on Intel Xeon 5300 Series Cpus |
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Hi Guys,
I just put in my order for my new virtualisation power house.
The specs are
2 x Intel BX80563E5345A QUAD CORE XEON 5345, 2.33 GHz, 1333 FSB, 8M CACHE, ACTIVE cooling
1 x Tyan Tempest i5000XT (S2696A2NRF) Dual LGA771, Intel 5000X chipset, 8x FB Dimm, 6x SATAII RAID, E-ATX, PCI-E x16
2 x Kingston KVR667D2D8F5/2G 2GB DDR2 667MHz ECC FULLY BUFFERED CL5 DIMM DUAL RANK x8
The system is going to be a development desk top and server system running multiple OS's through vmware and is designed so that we can test our updates and rollouts before putting them on the client and server machines. Its also my new personal desktop (so its gotta run World of Warcraft) 
I was just wondering what CFLAGS i should be using for the new 5300 quad core xeons? I've googled around abit some people are reccomending nocona and others amd64. I like to tune my systems up pretty tighly and am looking to take full advantage of the new cpus.
I am not new to gentoo or linux. It is just the first time i have used these types of cpus's. Previously all installations have been P4,P4Ds athlon-xps or PPC.
Thanks in advance,
Ash |
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Anon5710
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| Posted: Fri May 11, 2007 1:45 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | Intel Core 2 Duo/Quad / Xeon 51xx/53xx
32 bit profile (x86)
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=prescott -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
64 bit profile (amd64)
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O2 -pipe"
CXXFLAGS="${CFLAGS}"
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Ive got this from Gentoo wiki. 
Btw, thats a very nice system, how much did it cost you ? |
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Red-Drop
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Just under $4000 Aussy dollars. I already had a decent video card and plenty of spare 320GB sata HDDs.
That included an antec nine hundred case and power supply.
The case did not fit the E-ATX board. So i whent for a Coolermaster 832 (extra $200) But the best build case ive evere used.
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Red-Drop
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| Posted: Tue May 15, 2007 1:37 am Post subject: |
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Thanks those are the safe ones. I was more interested in the hardcore ones 
Looks like multiple cats of /proc/cpuinfo and a bit of googleing with the machine in front of me is necessary. Ill keep you posted.
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Red-Drop
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| Posted: Fri May 18, 2007 12:21 am Post subject: |
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Just for any one who is interested here were my final optimizations.
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CFLAGS="-march=nocona -O3 -pipe -funroll-loops -fomit-frame-pointer -mmmx -msse3 -mfpmath=sse"
CHOST="x86_64-pc-linux-gnu"
MAKEOPTS="-j9"
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I just love that MAKEOPTS its more than my old distcc cluster |
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