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Well it all depends on the servers that are on it and what they are hosting. If they are just running small things it will be fine. If you can on the motherboard you are using upgrade to dual quads Id suggest it, it is really cheap to upgrade.
The L5420 is also an option. I would not put any high ram customer machines on it, max of 1gb
I have a node with dual l5420's that are performing great, no matter that they are old.
I just ordered a batch of Intel Xeon 5150/60 both are good CPUs 5160 are 3.2Ghz but PLGA771 not LGA771.
They are not suitable for a production node, I would recommend a E5440 or L5420 over them.
L5420 will probably be better then
As we should all learnt, i/o is always the killer -> for a smaller node the CPU is fine. I guess you're asking this due to the Dacentec offer? They do at least offer 4*80GB -> smaller node -> fine
Perhaps go for a Dual E5520 or L5520. Pretty good value overall.
This CPU stuff is overrated.
A full small OVZ node as we have with SSD (typical one):
top - 02:16:39 up 104 days, 7:50, 1 user, load average: 1.31, 1.29, 1.00 Tasks: 2678 total, 4 running, 2669 sleeping, 0 stopped, 5 zombie Cpu(s): 21.2%us, 4.7%sy, 0.0%ni, 72.5%id, 0.2%wa, 0.0%hi, 1.5%si, 0.0%st Mem: 16287372k total, 15890448k used, 396924k free, 512920k buffers Swap: 4194296k total, 3301572k used, 892724k free, 6935752k cached free -m total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 15905 15703 202 0 508 6857 -/+ buffers/cache: 8337 7567 Swap: 4095 3293 802 processor : 7 vendor_id : GenuineIntel cpu family : 6 model : 42 model name : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E31270 @ 3.40GHz stepping : 7 cpu MHz : 1600.000 cache size : 8192 KB physical id : 0 siblings : 8 core id : 3 cpu cores : 4 apicid : 7 initial apicid : 7 fpu : yes fpu_exception : yes cpuid level : 13 wp : yes flags : fpu vme de pse tsc msr pae mce cx8 apic mtrr pge mca cmov pat pse36 clflush dts acpi mmx fxsr sse sse2 ss ht tm pbe syscall nx rdtscp lm constant_tsc arch_perfmon pebs bts rep_good xtopology nonstop_tsc aperfmperf pni pclmulqdq dtes64 monitor ds_cpl vmx smx est tm2 ssse3 cx16 xtpr pdcm sse4_1 sse4_2 x2apic popcnt xsave avx lahf_lm ida arat epb xsaveopt pln pts dts tpr_shadow vnmi flexpriority ept vpid bogomips : 6784.58 clflush size : 64 cache_alignment : 64 address sizes : 36 bits physical, 48 bits virtual power management:That has 4 real cores and 8 logical and here is the munin graph last week:
If you have fast storage and the CPU is not waiting on IO, the load can be handled by smaller CPUs, if you have a lot of iowait, no matter how good the CPU, will still spend the same amount of time waiting.