On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:21 PM, John Drescher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 2:14 PM, Mark Nienberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> For a new file server that doesn't really do much other than run samba, is >> there any advantage to quad core CPUs vs dual core? Say the two options are >> equivalent in price. >> > > I have not seen much on my gigabit network (servers and clients). The > cpu usage is generally low even on single core servers with 5 TB of > software raid 5. With that said I did order a q9950 and a new > motherboard to replace a single core system today but that was because > of a stability problem and not for performance reasons. $450 US for > the mobo (asus p5q pro + CPU is certainly not going to break the > budget. > > John >
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