From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 24 11:20:48 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD5CF16A41A; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:20:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@gyrec.cz) Received: from gate.gyrec.cz (gate.gyrec.cz [195.113.191.162]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8BB3613C4B7; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:20:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from admin@gyrec.cz) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=ASSP-nospam) by gate.gyrec.cz with esmtp (Exim 4.60 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1IkdPp-000F4J-KN; Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:24:45 +0200 Received: from 192.168.1.251 ([192.168.1.251] helo=inf1.gyrec.cz) by ASSP-nospam ; 24 Oct 07 10:24:45 -0000 Message-ID: <471F1D1B.4090007@gyrec.cz> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 12:23:23 +0200 From: Karel Rous User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070523 SeaMonkey/1.1.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Mark Powell References: <20071002164246.GA986@hades.panopticon> <20071003003329.GA78359@hades.panopticon> <20071023214838.P57575@rust.salford.ac.uk> In-Reply-To: <20071023214838.P57575@rust.salford.ac.uk> Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="------------030207070707010300020109" X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Dmitry Marakasov , freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need motherboard for home fileserver X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: karelrous@gyrec.cz List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:20:48 -0000 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------030207070707010300020109 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 --------------030207070707010300020109--