Re: [tlug] silicon cash eater

[kts <kts@example.com>]

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> On Jun 23, 2017, at 09:17, AbH Belxjander Draconis Serechai <belxjander@example.com> wrote:
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> Ahh...  personally I've built quite a number of machines...
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> and for the most part when building Intel chipped...  the majority of machines barely last 3-5 years before needing to be gutted and upgraded...
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> every AMD chipped machine I have built has generally lasted a minimum of twice that...
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> And when I initially did 20 machines for myself (I had the option so went for it...)
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> I did a 50% build each way with no common parts as a software developer testbench setup...
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> of the 20 machines...  ALL 10 Intel machines powered down and failed to power up within 6 months of the initial build while the AMD set were all still good at 6 years later. (K6-2 / K7 series CPU timeframe) and that was with 24/7 usage of at least two of them at any given time.
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> and my general system build results have remained consistent.
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Interesting results. My experience with AMD boards is similar (in numbers too), in that the boards were reliable and still running strong before my “need for speed” itch meant a new motherboard chipset / CPU socket architecture elbowed out the old. Ran up to 7 boxes in-house at one time, overclocked… wife thought I was a bit crazy, she wasn`t wrong in that… ;) I did build one Intel dual-core 2.5ghz about 11years ago, still running strong so maybe I got lucky. However, I always paid for premium motherboards from Asus or Gigabyte, never the cheapest so perhaps that helped out.

My question is still the same… how much cpu/speed/mem is enough for a basic file and web server, lightly used, that is good for 24/7 use and cheap on …uhm… everything?