Re: Any barebones system recommendation?

On 21 Jan 2007 04:28:46 GMT, General Schvantzkoph
<schvantzkoph@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:27:20 -0500, Neil Jones wrote:

.. . .

I am totally lost with the CPU language. Are there any barebone systems
that are reliable and inexpensive?

Any recommendations and advice greatly appreciated.

Thank you in advance.

NJ

The best performing systems are Intel Core2, the most Linux compatible
are Athlon 64s. The Nvidia Nforce motherboards (for AMD) are 100%
compatible, the Intel 965 motherboards for the Core2 mostly work but there
are some issues that you have to be careful about. The 965 issues are,

.. . .

The pluses of the Core2 are that it's about 30% faster on a clock for
clock basis then Athlon 64 X2 with 1M caches. AMD has reduced the cache
size on most socket AM2 chips to 1/2M cache so the advantage of the Core2
over the A64 X2 with the small caches is even greater. I did my
measurements on my E6700 Core2 vs my 939 A64 4400+ (1M caches), both
systems have 4G of RAM.

If you are using a 939 socket does this mean that you are using
DDR RAM? As far as I know, AM2 socket boards are all DDR2. At
least, I do not think I have seen a DDR board with AM2. Then again,
I have not seen benchmarks, so I do not know how much difference
DDR2 is making in the overall result. It does not necessarily
mean you can use a higher FSB, though that is what one would
expect.

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