[opensuse] Best CPU for OSS 10.3 Small Home Network Server
Hello All, I am going to upgrade my home network server from a Pentium 4 S478 1.7 Mhz to a S775 MB with 1066 FSB. I don't want to spend a lot of money. Is a Pentium D okay as a CPU for this or should I go with the next one up? Celeron not good either? -- Keith Boykin You are what you think - so always think positively! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
kbboykin@comcast.net wrote:
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I am going to upgrade my home network server from a Pentium 4 S478 1.7 Mhz to a S775 MB with 1066 FSB. I don't want to spend a lot of money. Is a Pentium D okay as a CPU for this or should I go with the next one up? Celeron not good either?
It depends on what you will server. What is home network server do ?
-- Keith Boykin
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On Saturday 27 October 2007 19:11:59 kbboykin@comcast.net wrote:
Hello All,
I am going to upgrade my home network server from a Pentium 4 S478 1.7 Mhz to a S775 MB with 1066 FSB. I don't want to spend a lot of money. Is a Pentium D okay as a CPU for this or should I go with the next one up? Celeron not good either?
What will you be using the server for? If it's just file and print, just about any CPU will do just fine, you shouldn't have to upgrade your P4 at all. You'd get more benefit from more RAM and faster hard drives, probably RAIDed Anders -- Madness takes its toll -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
kbboykin@comcast.net wrote:
Hello All,
I am going to upgrade my home network server from a Pentium 4 S478 1.7 Mhz to a S775 MB with 1066 FSB. I don't want to spend a lot of money. Is a Pentium D okay as a CPU for this or should I go with the next one up? Celeron not good either?
I'm assuming that you're not going to use this as a "compute server" ... something that you submit computationally intensive tasks to from other machines. On that assumption, to maximize your benefit/cost ratio, you want to use as cheap a CPU as you can find (because even slow CPU's are thousands of times faster than the fastest disk drives), and lots of memory. Further improvement comes from having lots of small (in today's world) disk drives instead of one huge disk ... many disks = more track-seeks that can be performed simultaneously. Don't buy into the propaganda that CPU speed is the primary determinant of system performance...and that a "server" needs the fastest thing out there. File serving is NOT a CPU intensive task, and printing is a task which CAN BE CPU intensive but is also feeding to a tediously slow physical device....and no CPU in the world is going to speed up your printer.
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kbboykin@comcast.net wrote:
Hello All,
I am going to upgrade my home network server from a Pentium 4 S478 1.7 Mhz to a S775 MB with 1066 FSB. I don't want to spend a lot of money. Is a Pentium D okay as a CPU for this or should I go with the next one up? Celeron not good either?
I ran a print server, mail server, public web site, some light mysql, as well as used the box for *lots* of backups and archives. It was a P4 2.2 GHz. The only time it ever slowed down was doing print conversions of graphics-loaded files. I have a Pentium D box and have been quite impressed with its performance. That chip should be fine for what you want to do. More recently I've been using a hosting service at www.futurequest.net -- they have given me *excellent* service and support for the 6 months I've been with them. (I made the switch when I moved cross country and couldn't tolerate any down time during the move and transition.) Hope this helps, Buddy Coffey -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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