Recent content by prezhdarov

This is great and no, the noise isn't the problem there. The density however. During the last refresh of my employer's infra the only dual socket Xeon that had decent base clock - of 3GHz and more - and could be air cooled in 1U server had the whooping 8 (eight) cores. Compared to a 2 x 32...

And how many of these "cheaper" Xeon parts do not require water cooling? It's really hard to find air cooled Xeons with decent speeds and core density and most data centres wouldn't allow water cooled servers...