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| Thread ID: 62243 | 2005-10-01 08:00:00 | What CPU? | robsonde (120) | Press F1 |
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| 392616 | 2005-10-02 03:57:00 | the system will be a webserver. apache and perl on unix, mysql backend. I would rather pay an extra $100 on chip and mobo cost to get 50 watts less power use. noise and power are my big issues, onboard network is fine, onboard video is fine too as I dont care about video at all. The AMD 64 would be fine, not knowing much about the server load, a raid array is probably more relavent than the CPU grunt (to a point of course). The AMD 64 is low power and heat, however the stock AMD fans are a little noisy (little less than a P4 fan imo). If you want low noise you would probably have to look at a after maket fan or water cooling. |
Battleneter (60) | ||
| 392617 | 2005-10-02 04:25:00 | .....not knowing much about the server load, a raid array is probably more relavent than the CPU grunt (to a point of course)..... the server is currently running on a AMD K6II - 300MHz with 128Mb RAM. CPU grunt is not a big issue :-) I am only upgrading it because it is so old. |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 392618 | 2005-10-02 04:38:00 | why not a p3 with passive heatsink ? still heaps of good 2nd hand ones around. or dual cpu box ?? or something a bit different.....look here (www.ascent.co.nz) |
tweak'e (69) | ||
| 392619 | 2005-10-02 04:47:00 | why not a p3 with passive heatsink ? still heaps of good 2nd hand ones around. I figure if i am going to do an upgrade then i might as well go all the way, i have a very cool case that would be wasted on a second hand PIII :-) |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 392620 | 2005-10-02 04:55:00 | I am sorry but 1 . First off you haven't even asked him "what he is doing with this unit" server could mean anything . How can you say Opteron will probably have more features he wants? . I have a "server" that feeds two machines as a gateway, I hardly think I need Opteron . Don't apologise chap, just read and everything will become much clearer . I'll even give you a hand, last sentence of the first paragraph of my first post on this thread . 2 . Opteron's are more expensive especially there motherboards . "cost is no big deal as i want quite and i am willing to pay more to get it . " From the thread starters first post, I therefore considered Opterons as viable . 3 . Dual cores- There is currently only a very few apps and no games that support dual core (except synthetic benchmarks) and the general consensus is a year away before the true benefits start to come through . They consume about the same power as single core, next to no consideration to be made here . They are considerably more expensive, It he has the money sure go for it . Remember, the first post and the question of usage had not as yet been answered but, it had been asked . However, I imagine this server will be in use for longer than a year and cost, as stated, is not necessarilly a consideration . Amd 64's are beating the P4 in virtually all games and use less power, but they are often behind in apps due to there lack HT ability, however unless you are doing some heavy encoding etc the difference is not worth considering . With home users the choice should generally be 939 AMD64 over P4 (at the moment anyway), and AMD 64,s will also go very nicely in smaller domain controllers or file servers etc . No arguement there, see follow ups once usage was given . A wee word, if I may . Have a thorough read before you have a crack :) |
Murray P (44) | ||
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