On 10/06/2016 12:55 AM, Russell Coker via luv-main wrote: > http://www.cpubenchmark.net/midlow_range_cpus.html > > I have a tower server with an AMD Athlon 1212 CPU and 8G of ECC RAM to give > away. The above URL has the relative performance of the CPU (it beats the i3 > and Core 2 Duo systems but doesn't compete with the quad core CPUs). The CPU > lacks the feature needed for KVM, if you run QEMU it will be in software > emulation mode which is really slow. It used to be a Xen server. > > It has PCIe*8 slots so you can't install a decent video card without using a > saw. All RAM slots are full and I think it uses unbuffered DIMMs so > expanding > the RAM probably costs more than it's worth. > > If you need a 64bit dual-core server with 8G of RAM then this will probably > work quite well. It can work as a desktop system (and did so well for a few > years), but the inbuilt graphics is slow. It makes little noise if you have > a > SSD and the CPU is mostly idle. > > I can bring it to a LUV meeting.
It should make an excellent FreeNAS [1] box using ZFS and the ECC RAm; power consumption might be the only drawback for that use. [1] http://www.freenas.org/ Cheers AndrewM
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