Best for the money if they are free. Honestly, all the Xeons mentioned here have a per thread rating that is dismal compared to a basic quad core i7 rig which can be had for refurb prices. There's a reason they are cheap.
Looks like most of these responses are based on the limited world of gaming, over-clocking and not real business use.
Anybody badmouthing the p3 Tualatin never used one in a dedicated application server role. My >1.26 ghz dual processor P3 tualatin Citrix and Terminal Servers were absolute...
As the PC industry grinds to a death we have to read this crud.
My main rig is an i7 2600 I got for cheap in 2012. However, because the core efficacy is so high it continues to kick butt and do everything I need today. Plays any game I want and rips through lightroom like a scalded dog...
That's because modern Western Christianity has been altered and distorted over the centuries especially right after the Catholic Reformation so that you can basically do whatever you want to your fellow man and you can still 'be saved'. It's the ultimate religion for the civilized, modern masses...
I can just see myself replacing some patch cables in my corporate gigs with flat - the Network staff, particularly the "Network Engineers" (who basically sit and do nothing all day) would start foaming at the mouth in temper tantrums. I would love it.
As long as it's twisted and structurally...
Why? Because some companies still have 32bit processors and have a policy that they don't retire workstations until they die. These places still run XP and Vista, and if you have an app that requires Win7 or higher they will install it on a P4.
I see the above far more than 16bit needs.
If this is indeed a true server build then it's impossible to offer suggestions without knowing what applications are going to be run.
If you plan on running Vmware on this box good luck getting those consumer SATA controllers to work with ESX.
If it's just a file server then the money is...
10GbE ports or upgrading to a fully managed 1Gb switch won't make local storage on a server run faster, and that's going to be the next bottleneck.
I'm betting the OP is confusing mbps with MBps.
10MBps is about right for a 10/100 switch that's saturated.
25MBps is about right for a...
I support all of the Windows desktop OS's including some legacy systems still running on Win2k.
Biggest advantage of Win10 over Win7 is Win10 is significantly more efficient and quicker when it comes to portables. No question that Win10 on a laptop or tablet is more productive than Win7 for too...
Most vinyl records are cut from digital masters anyways. It's like all the analog film freaks scanning film with their dSLR and claiming how much better the film is than digital.
Note I say "most". There are some studios trying to go back to direct analog lathe masters, but it isn't easy. Sony...
Goes like this...basically you think more cores that do less work makes your 'puter multitask better when there's no benchmark or application set I've ever seen that proves it. Other than that, I have no issue with AMD...just wish they'd quite with the nonsense about more cores.
Been running...
I've been switching a lot of utility servers I have (that aren't virtual) to 128GB SDD's for system drives because the prices on those suckers has REALLY dropped to the point the bean counters can't refuse. Those systems will never exceed 50GB at most in their lifetime, so why not?
It's mostly a bunch of marketing baloney to try and draw attention to their product. Obviously a 5400 rpm drive will consume less power than have less iOPS than a 7200rpm drive, and as to why 5400rpm drives still exist defies me. Thing is, nobody uses SATA with tier 1 enterprise storage, and...
ISP supplied routers tend to be garbage and I can tell stories about Comcast business gateways running out of DHCP addresses and other nonsense that can fill up pages of blogs. However, even the really crappy gear can typically handle one or two connections at time without much problem. Where...
Pretty much any Dell on their scratch and dent site. We bought some nice HPs for our non-profit a month ago for $400. Once you start getting into the $400 range DIY starts to lose it's luster and advantage.
Agree with you on Win7 :-)
I volunteer at a few animal shelters, and our resident vets are regarded as the best in the State. They've discussed this with us many times and don't get kick backs from food makers as accused above.
All the shelters in my area feed Science Diet - period. We get cheaper food donated to us...
Even assuming this statement is correct, which it only partially is (see bottom), and you copied the RDP hive .DLLs from Windows Server to Windows Desktop versions (creating a likely brick during a service pack) please explain how you would grab the foreground 'console' session?
Most people...
With all due respect, the terms 'Well Constructed' along with meaningless price points add too many variables to draw a concise argument from. However, DAC design has improved measurably over the past decade.
Back in like 1998 I bought a used, Adcom GDA-600 external DAC for a really nice...
I'm building some custom theatrical / stage / DJ projectors from LED's, and due to the costs of glass optics I'm looking more and more at Fresnel lenses. The type used for basic magnification, which are rather inexpensive.
What I'm not clear on is if Fresnels use the typical thin lens...
My guy friends and I were discussing this, and one unanimous gripe we had about our women was this habit that seems more to do with obsessive compulsive disorder than combating a unibrow.
I don't think I know a single guy who find this attractive. Body hair is of course typically frowned...
Easily one of the worst films I've seen this year. If Ridley Scott's name wasn't associated with it the film could easily be a Sy-Fy channel production with all the cheesy monster crap.
I stopped counting all the continuity problems and gaping plot holes. It's like there were two films, and...
Man, hear that. I work in information technology and get a hoot at seeing long term, unfilled jobs sitting vacant for years because the job qualifications are absurd. Usually it's because some HR drone wrote the application and doesn't realize that somebody who's an RPG programmer likely doesn't...
Actually, I'd prefer guests and analysts to 'go at it' a bit provided it's not scripted and not one sided. Sean Hannity is perhaps the worst at this where he asks a question and then diatribes their response before hand just to make them mad.
Of all the news organizations I've heard the most...
How about about clicking the option to install Adobe CS5 native on Linux? Oh wait...you don't have that option, along with 75% of the *professional* apps I run because it's not native on Linux. Or I can spend a weekend dicking around with time sucking vampires like Wine and having it...
Also, what's the big deal about these theoretically fast boot times when you then have to wait for dozens of back-ground processes and services to initialize?
I don't keep old hardware myself, but roving around in IT contracts you get to see a lot of ancient crap. The 20lb, 5.25", fat SCSI external floppy drive I scavanged will make a superb gag gift.
Finished up a contract gig last year where the client had about half a dozen 486's with over-drive...
I don't find the OP's objections any more logical than service businesses that refuse to hire counter and wait staff with excessive facial piercings.
This isn't 1997 and the job market is a bit more competitive.
Um, agreed.
However, by bundling it with Windows VIII and being essentially free we have the 'IE effect'.
I'm more curious if we have the potential of managing the hypervisor in some sort of VDI role, which really might be Microsoft's intent.
I still insist that nuclear power plants can be designed with near fault proof safety margins. The biggest problem is having to build huge reactor vessels to make them cost effective, and this makes them tricky to cool. Make a lot of smaller reactor vessels that don't require such a massive...
Not a bad idea. Big problem though - Wallstreet is the biggest beneficiary of deficit spending there is. You want your 401k to grow faster than the GDP? Then only debt can induce that. I'm often shocked that people don't get that.
The biggest problem with the 'free market' today is that...
Kudos, but in a certain respect this is an oxymoron if you're using the typical Windows API calls in a TS environment (stop laughing Nothinman). Why bother checking to see if the user has admin rights first when you can attempt to write to that same registry key a few million times first and...
No - Because Microsoft doesn't write the drivers. They don't and never will regard it as their problem. If Microsoft had a clue they would force makers of Windows compliant hardware to comply to a universal driver standard - at least for baseline functionality so you can perform basic...
Only if they are cryogenically frozen in liquid nitrogen first. This helps align the metallic crystals in the cables to the magnetic field of the earth. If you move to another State you must re-freeze the cables to 'reset' their alignment.
The expensive cables also add a touch of class if...
Spent the past 15yrs working mostly in Enterprise IT in the Midwest, which leads me to dealing with a lot of Asian nationals.
Some of the most brilliant technicians I've worked with are Indian, but I'm also astounded at their lack of 'out of box' thinking skills. Anybody who works corporate...
His company has 20 something users and all he needs is basic file services. What the %^&* does this have to do with 15k drives (??) and the guy above mumbling about 'teaming NIC' cards??? Gee guys, should we go fiber channel or iSCSI? Maybe he also needs to host his own Exchange Server.
Next...
Acronis or Paragon.
However, if your goal is to simply clone to a spare disk, and have that disk ready to swap incase your current install goes FUBAR then the Seagate or WD tools work very well for that task.
Can't stand Clonezilla and the open source tools. Too many unpredictable problems...
Another distinction between the two is that a live 'clone' can typically be verified immiediately while 'imaging' typically involves an intermediate file. However, 'imaging' is often just a clone process that writes the disk map to an intermediate file as opposed to another physical device...
While I understand the origin and tradition of the common church organ in Western Christianity it might have been a lot more interesting had that instrument been the bongos or an accordian. Cowbell anybody? Then again it could have been the xylophone.
I honestly think the reason I stopped...
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