Ok after thinking about Ron's response I will admit that the latest design is usually less efficient than if you are able to obtain a high efficiency revision of the previous one. But the power supply is at least as important. And there would be a high efficiency i7 as is being currently used in laptops (although @ lower clock speeds = a cheat really).<br>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 5:02 PM, Brian Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cymraegish@gmail.com">cymraegish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Link:<br><br><a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006519&isNodeId=1&Description=i7+processor&x=15&y=17" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=100006519&isNodeId=1&Description=i7+processor&x=15&y=17</a><div class="HOEnZb">
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:59 PM, Brian Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cymraegish@gmail.com" target="_blank">cymraegish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
IMHO better to get i7 / Xeon3500 board rather than the i3/ Xeon3400. <br>Otherwise you are buying a design that is already nearly two years old, ie 1 computer generation behind.<br><br>Also it might help some hackers to have pcix16 for OpenCL / CUDA practice (AI stuff)<br>
<br>Thirdly don't you need to add a new harddrive or three for RAID maybe ?<br><br> And what about the powersupply ? Is the current one high efficiency ? Those can save 40% in electric costs.<br><br>Brian<br><br><br>
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On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 4:24 PM, Ben Kochie <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ben@nerp.net" target="_blank">ben@nerp.net</a>></span> wrote:<br></div><div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I've been thinking it would be worth upgrading the machine in the space<br>
we use to run Pony. Right now it's a crappy dual core AMD machine that's<br>
about 3 years old. </blockquote></div><div><br>Yeah pretty damn sad, for a place that calls itself a hacker space.<br>May have been newly manufacture 3 years ago, but its like a five year old design.<br> <br></div><div>
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I would like to be able to have more ram for running<br>
virtual machines for various local services.<br>
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Here's a shopping list I put together:<br>
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Supermicro X8SIL-F Server motherboard - $190<br>
* <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182211" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813182211</a><br>
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Intel Xeon X3440 2.53GHz - $238<br>
* <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117225" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819117225</a><br>
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16GB (2 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM ECC Registered - $230<br>
* <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161460" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161460</a><br>
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1U CPU cooler - $25<br>
* <a href="http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835200064" target="_blank">http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835200064</a><br>
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Total: $683+tax-n-shipping<br>
<br>
-ben<br>
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