Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:39:45 +0200 From: Michal Varga <varga.michal@gmail.com> To: karelrous@gyrec.cz Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org, Dmitry Marakasov <amdmi3@amdmi3.ru>, Mark Powell <M.S.Powell@salford.ac.uk>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need motherboard for home fileserver Message-ID: <1193225985.981.15.camel@xenon.stonehenge.sk> In-Reply-To: <471F1D1B.4090007@gyrec.cz> References: <20071002164246.GA986@hades.panopticon> <20071003003329.GA78359@hades.panopticon> <20071023214838.P57575@rust.salford.ac.uk> <471F1D1B.4090007@gyrec.cz>
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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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