Core 2 Duo E6400 as a server CPU?

zhuanyi

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.

KuJoe

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

zhuanyi

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. ;)

ElliotJ

@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?

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Q3'06. Fairly old.

zhuanyi

@ElliotJ said: Q3'06. Fairly old.

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

Taylor

@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.

zhuanyi

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

But performance-wise?

jamson

@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...)

Damian

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

Will it be remote desktop over the internet?

Amfy

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!

zhuanyi

@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?

Damian

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.

zhuanyi

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.

HalfEatenPie

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!

zhuanyi

@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?

qhoster

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

rds100

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.

HalfEatenPie

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

10 what are you talking about? 20 Go to 10

zhuanyi

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.

zhuanyi

That's a dead loop???

@HalfEatenPie said: 10 what are you talking about? 20 Go to 10

rds100

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.

Alex_LiquidHost

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

HalfEatenPie

@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.

HalfEatenPie

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

Don't question the PIE!

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