Larry McVoy wrote: > For all of the Unix like platforms, we'd be happy with 2Ghz Athlons (don't > need opterons) with 256MB. It's true that for the windows platforms we No specific recommendations, but one thing to keep in mind is that later process/stepping Athlon 64/Opterons are far more power efficient (especially when using powernow) than older 32 bit Athlons. I'm not sure why Xeon based space heaters^H^H blades have been recommended in previous posts when low power is an issue?!? Cheers David