Re: Need motherboard for home fileserver

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