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Core 2 Duo E6400 as a server CPU?
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Core 2 Duo E6400 as a server CPU?

zhuanyizhuanyi Member
edited July 2012 in General

How would the performance be? I am not too sure what is the equivalent of this CPU to say the i5/i7 family or the Xeon family. Is it going to be a decent Windows remote desktop workstation? Thanks.

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  • KuJoeKuJoe Member, Host Rep

    For personal use you should be fine. Rule of thumb for me is never use consumer hardware in an enterprise setting. ;)

  • No money and no time to start a successful online business like SecureDargon (and perhaps no knowledge as well) :p

    So here is my noob question, what exactly is this E6400 CPU (or this family of CPU in general), is it like a generation before or after the i3 and i5 stuff came out or it is just a cheaper equivalent of them?

    @KuJoe said: For personal use you should be fine. Rule of thumb for me is never use consumer hardware in an enterprise setting. ;)

  • @zhuanyi said: So here is my noob question, what exactly is this E6400 CPU (or this family of CPU in general), is it like a generation before or after the i3 and i5 stuff came out or it is just a cheaper equivalent of them?

    Linkety link

    Q3'06. Fairly old.

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  • @ElliotJ said: Q3'06. Fairly old.

    How does it compare to, say, the new Intel Atom CPUs then? About the same?

  • TaylorTaylor Member
    edited July 2012

    @zhuanyi said: How does it compare to, say, the new Intel Atom CPUs then? About the same?

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    The power from a older chip is typically more, so I would try and go newer.

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  • @Taylor said: The power from a older chip is typically more, so I would try and go newer.

    But performance-wise?

  • jamsonjamson Member

    @zhuanyi said: But performance-wise?

    http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

    The Core 2 Duo would be better.

    (I know the benchmark test isn't 100% accurate, but it's still a rough guide...)

  • DamianDamian Member

    Performance-wise, it'll be fine for a Windows remote desktop workstation.

    Will it be remote desktop over the internet?

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  • AmfyAmfy Member

    The CPU isn't the newest, but for the most stuff in the private area it's more than enough. CPU should be 2-3x like an Atom. And of course remember, that for many application the i/o is an important thing to recognize, too, so the decicated will be faster than a vps even if the vps has a better cpu, since it has dedicated i/o.
    On dedicated servers you should always know that you have dedicated performance!

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  • @Damian said: Will it be remote desktop over the internet?

    Yes, the DC is more than 1000km away from me....
    The thing is, I have some data scraping program that I need to run on Windows (written in VB.NET and C#.NET) and send to the MS-SQL DB that is sitting on the same machine, the data scraped, on average, would be just around 1000 rows a day to start with, with more to come afterwards....

    Do you think this machine could handle that?

  • DamianDamian Member

    Yeah, that'll be more RAM-dependent than CPU-dependent. How much ram will this system have? Since it's a desktop processor, standard RAM will be cheaper, so I'd recommend at least 4gb.

  • It comes with 2GB of RAM and 1 400GB hard drive, it is a project for fun, data will be pulled from a spreadsheet I have sitting on my own laptop and I will be the only user for it.

  • HalfEatenPieHalfEatenPie Veteran
    edited July 2012

    I don't know what we're talking about so I'm just going to agree with this and say the following generic lines:

    GoDaddy is the evil empire!

    Hostgator should get better security!

    I think all the regular hosting companies here are awesome!

  • @HalfEatenPie said: I don't know what we're talking about so I'm just going to agree with this and say the following generic lines:

    ??? HalfEatenPie is in robot mode?

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  • Slow CPU you can find a lot better CPU models in the same price range.

  • rds100rds100 Member

    If you got it for free - it's good. If you need to pay for it - tell us what will you pay, and maybe we can point you to better options.

  • @zhuanyi said: ??? HalfEatenPie is in robot mode?

    10 what are you talking about?
    20 Go to 10

  • not free, but very cheap, 30 bucks a month, DC is in Dallas.

    @rds100 said: If you got it for free - it's good. If you need to pay for it - tell us what will you pay, and maybe we can point you to better options.

  • That's a dead loop???

    @HalfEatenPie said: 10 what are you talking about?

    20 Go to 10

  • rds100rds100 Member

    For $30 you could probably find a decent VPS that will suit your application, and would have more reliability (RAID vs a single drive). Granted getting a VPS with 400GB space would be hard, but you probably don't need all that space anyway.

  • AlexBarakovAlexBarakov Patron Provider, Veteran

    Not going to be a killer performance-wise, but should be better than the cheapest atoms out there.

    I had one c2d 2140 sitting at home, overclocked at 100% (from 1.6GHz to 3.19GHz), working 24/7 for 2 years :D

  • @LiquidHost said: I had one c2d 2140 sitting at home, overclocked at 100% (from 1.6GHz to 3.19GHz), working 24/7 for 2 years :D

    You make me want to fiddle with my old desktop again.

  • @zhuanyi said: That's a dead loop???

    Don't question the PIE!

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    Possibly...

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