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stephencrowley

Do any of you guys have experience leasing servers? I'm thinking of getting a dual opteron for about $4K from monarchcomputer.com

Over 3 years they quoted $135/month for a fair-market-value buyout, and $143 for a $1 buyout. What is the catch? The fair market value of the machine will be at *least* $1500 after 3 years.. why would anyone choose the option when the $1 buyout is only $7/month higher?
 
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Do any of you guys have experience leasing servers? I'm thinking of getting a dual opteron for about $4K from monarchcomputer.com

Over 3 years they quoted $135/month for a fair-market-value buyout, and $143 for a $1 buyout. What is the catch? The fair market value of the machine will be at *least* $1500 after 3 years.. why would anyone choose the option when the $1 buyout is only $7/month higher?
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Go to Dell and price out a similar computer. It is amazing what they value the server at after three years - like 10% of the original purchase price.

IMO, Dell computers are so cheap and work so well with most linuxes that I see no reason to get any other computer. I recently just bought a 2850 from them but considered a lease instead.

If you want to go Opteron, that is another issue altogether.

nitro
 
Definately going opteron, that's why I decided against dell. I checked out HP but they were seriously expensive.

--Stephen

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Go to Dell and price out a similar computer. It is amazing what they value the server at after three years - like 10% of the original purchase price.

IMO, Dell computers are so cheap and work so well with most linuxes that I see no reason to get any other computer. I recently just bought a 2850 from them but considered a lease instead.

If you want to go Opteron, that is another issue altogether.

nitro
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why do like the amd chip over intel?
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Only dumb cattle-like instinct. Used over 100+ Intel motherboards since 1994. Never liked them 100% but had only one go really bad: 29 months old, Intel replaced it under the 3year warranty.

I like reading the amd stories very much, but the last few years, red also about a lot of tears from peope trying to keep their mobos in shape.

Maybe one day I'll give it a try. Which mobo though?

Dunno.
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Only dumb cattle-like instinct.. yeah, I must've 'red' that somewhere too....

So far, a few anecodotal stories about amd boards going bad is not enough to convince me.

I'm going with the Thunder K8S.

More reviews here and here

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Only dumb cattle-like instinct. Used over 100+ Intel motherboards since 1994. Never liked them 100% but had only one go really bad: 29 months old, Intel replaced it under the 3year warranty.

I like reading the amd stories very much, but the last few years, red also about a lot of tears from peope trying to keep their mobos in shape.

Maybe one day I'll give it a try. Which mobo though?

Dunno.
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Quote from nitro:

Go to Dell and price out a similar computer. It is amazing what they value the server at after three years - like 10% of the original purchase price.

IMO, Dell computers are so cheap and work so well with most linuxes that I see no reason to get any other computer. I recently just bought a 2850 from them but considered a lease instead.

If you want to go Opteron, that is another issue altogether.

nitro
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I agree. I will not buy anything else.
 
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Only dumb cattle-like instinct.. yeah, I must've 'red' that somewhere too....

So far, a few anecodotal stories about amd boards going bad is not enough to convince me.

I'm going with the Thunder K8S.

More reviews here and here
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'red' your: http://www.2cpu.com/hardware/motherboards/tyan/thunder_k8s/conclusion.html
"All in all, a wonderful Opteron board with PCI-X and integrated dual-channel U320 SCSI. While the Xeons held a lead in a large number of the benchmarks, I'm hoping AMD will roll out some faster Opterons to counter the threat."

also: 64bit amd benchmarks still seem not worth the trouble.

dunno which motherboard they tested the dual Xeons with.
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They tested the Opteron 246 btw, which runs at 2ghz. I'm getting dual 252's which run at 2.6ghz.

They tested the xeon on the Intel E7505 chipset.

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'red' your: http://www.2cpu.com/hardware/motherboards/tyan/thunder_k8s/conclusion.html
"All in all, a wonderful Opteron board with PCI-X and integrated dual-channel U320 SCSI. While the Xeons held a lead in a large number of the benchmarks, I'm hoping AMD will roll out some faster Opterons to counter the threat."

also: 64bit amd benchmarks still seem not worth the trouble.

dunno which motherboard they tested the dual Xeons with.
Thanks:)
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