Need motherboard for home fileserver

[Michal Varga]

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.