Intel E8500 vs Q9550 and q8400 Hello Everyone, I am new to this forum and am looking for some help/advise. I currently run a web/DB server at home and a seperate email server, I am starting a business and in the process of building an online presence both these servers are Pentium 4 processors, I am also running a seperate media centre server that a media centre pc talks to for our movies. Now as you can imagine this means I am eating 1800Watts + of power while these machines are on (24/7 incidently), now I am thinking of replacing these 3 machines with a single machine, since the Intel i series processors have hit the market the old Core 2 duo and quads have dropped in price. Now its time for me to ake a decision and I am pondering which way to go, I am off the belief that a server is better with as many cores as possible and as much memory as practical. So I was thinking of getting a Q9550 processor is this a good idea or should I use the E8500. BTW I am tossing up between Windows server 2008 R2 running exchange or a Centos/opensuse linux type server and believe both of these OS will utilise all the processors that I throw at them. I know the xeon are probably a better option but I have a budget and the xeon are currently out of my price range. Any advise would be greatly appreciated. ikhan42
secondary thought Hi sorry its me again, Just had a secondary thought if there are any comments on the AMD Phenom II x6 1090T and other phenom processors I am open to suggestions there too, have never used AMD in my life have always been an intel user but the 1090T has 6 cores and seems lika an attractive package just worried about compatability with MS I know generally the linux world is ok with amd but not to sure about MS. Thanks ikhan42
If servers are going to be the purpose, then a dual core will be fine, if not? Then get the i7 series, since that you should worry more about memory instead of super-ubber processing power, it's a server, so more RAM should be the focus. And no comment on the other brand of CPUs, never used it and never will.
nasgul is right in servers almost everything depends on ram if u aint got so too much sh**** CPU dual core will be fine...
