Re: Need motherboard for home fileserver

On Wed, 2007-10-24 at 12:23 +0200, Karel Rous wrote:
Mark Powell wrote:
On Wed, 3 Oct 2007, Dmitry Marakasov wrote:

Intel CPU Pentium DualCore E2140

They are similar price to the cheapest AMD and are really just a
Core2Duo with just 1MB cache and offical 800MHz FSB. However, they are
the same silicon as C2D. As such these run easily at ~3GHz with
350-400MHz FSB all with no voltage increases, if you're into such things.
It's a shame AMD have fallen behind Intel. Corporate crime does pay
it seems :(
Personally I don't see any evidence about this statement in low
price solution. I use AMD for a long time and it has never as
overclockable as Intel. The first one I have found is A64 3000 which I
bought two weeks ago...


Though Core 2 Duo CPUs are more expensive,

See above. Possibly not as low power as an AMD solution, but a lot
more for your money, me thinks.
I think overclocking shoudn't be understood as a feature you pay
for. It's mainly a matter of luck. Reliability (probability of crash)
and lifetime of such machines could be worse.

Karel

When someone asks me for differences between Core 2 and AMD/64/FX/etc, I
wont bother to argue anymore, I simply link this:
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-misc&m=118296441702631

..and let them decide on their own. (well, maybe I sometimes add that
buying C2D today is a suicide, but *that* is a highly personal opinion).


m.


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