Sun’s 4-Way AMD Opteron Server Reviewed

Sun Fire V40z: Four Opteron Chips in a 3U

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 02/24/2005 | 02:48 PM ]

Sun Microsystems, who started to make servers based on AMD’s Opteron microprocessors about a year ago, currently sells a significant part of all AMD Opteron chips supplied to market. Sun’s products traditionally offer high performance and impressive stability. AnandTech has taken a look at Sun Fire V40z entry-level server, which is powered by four Opteron 850 clocked at 2.40GHz frequency and are supported by 8GBs of PC2700 DDR memory.

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“In the world of High Power, High Availability computing, stability and features go much further than a 1% boost in performance. As far as stability goes, we know that the Sun Fire V40z is certainly best of breed. Between the Motorola Service Processor, dedicated out-of-band management network, redundant 760W power supplies and hot swappable active cooling, it becomes real hard for us to determine a single point of failure that could cripple a server. The seven featured PCI-X expansion slots are also a great addition to the feature portfolio of the V40z,” the web-site claims.

• AnandTech: Sun Fire V40z: Four Opterons in a 3U.