Chris,

I'm enjoying 5.3 on a dual processor (x dual core) Dell--uses Xeon 
processors.  It's been up for 174 days--work on the incoming power 
interrupted it last autumn.  Seems pretty solid--would imagine that 
other Xeon or core i7 should be equally stable.

Clint

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On Wed, 14 Apr 2010, Chris Tooley wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> I've been tasked with purchasing a computer with 2 processors at least (not 
> just multicore) has anyone experience with hardware that works flawlessly 
> with SL 5?  I'm leaning towards Intel processors - would I only be looking 
> for Xeon or are there core i7 dual processor motherboards out there too? 
> This will be a desktop/research machine - so servers are not exactly what I'm 
> looking for.
>
> Of course I'm also searching around already but I was wondering if anyone had 
> any suggestions from which I could start.
>
> Thank you!
> -Chris Tooley
>
>