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As I said in the mobo section, i need a cpu that is at least 2.4 ghz w/ 800mhz fsb and can run for a year or so w/o crashing or being turned off. help
 
As I said in the mobo section
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Lets try to avoid multiposting (as to keep things clean and easy to navigate) :)

As I said in the mobo section, I need a cpu that is at least 2.4 ghz w/ 800mhz fsb and can run for a year or so w/o crashing or being turned off. help
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Crashing is dependent on the OS and intensity really (more so the intensity). The important questions are:
1. As Cromewell said, budget
2. What do you plan to do with the servers?
3. How much scaling are you looking at?
4. What kind of architecture? SMP/Alpha/Itanium etc
 
Im going to set up a linux server that will service 6 computers and a wireless enabled printer. for the cpu, -400 would be good, but i dont know much about server cpus. im thinkin of using smp, if that helps.
 
a dual p3 linux server would be plenty fast. our linux server at school is a dual p3 and it hasn't been bogged down by overusage. really you only need lots of ram for a server not a real fast processor
 
linux server that will service 6 computers
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What type of server (i.e., define "service")

for the cpu, -400 would be good, but I dont know much about server cpus. im thinkin of using smp, if that helps.
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If you mean "less-than-400" you're totally out of luck unless you wanna do PentiumPro/II SMP. Even two-way CPUs are 300 a pop ... wait till you see the pricetag on the mobo and ram :P

a dual p3 linux server would be plenty fast. our linux server at school is a dual p3 and it hasn't been bogged down by overusage.
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Depends on what kind of linux server ... if you think you can run a rendering server on dual P3's you're in for a dissapointment :P (of course i know you dont think so, just making a point). I do agree on the major bottleneck being memory
 
In that case, damn near any [2.4GHz+ or otherwise] CPU will do, nothing special there.
 
Praetor said:
In that case, damn near any [2.4GHz+ or otherwise] CPU will do, nothing special there.
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I agree. Serving 6PCs is not a huge job and LINUX is efficient in terms of CPU usage. You can run a web server, file server, mail server and much more on LINUX. I run this on a PII-350 and it runs OK.

If you are running applications from the server using JAVA and a database, you may want to think about load, but serving 6 PCs is a very small load in the big scheme of things.
 
If you are running applications from the server using JAVA and a database
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Yah and if you're running Java you might wanna rent a few supercomputers to overcome it's stupidity :D

but serving 6 PCs is a very small load in the big scheme of things.
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Unless you're running a terminal server, renderfarm etc :P (lol i know i know :P im just poking fun hehee)
 
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