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Old 13th November 2008
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Originally Posted by nfries88 View Post
How is power consumption of a core2quad compared with that of a core2duo? That's also a factor I should consider.
The truth of the matter is that you do not need anything of above but
you started with quads and 2 duos so I poured little bit oil to the flame. If you want really elegant solution go with MicroITX and fanless VIA chip-sets. That is what I really like these days beside SUN's sparc hardware. If I was building Wintel box I would go with quads and 8 GB of memory.

By the way I had couple boxes that where running even X on 128 MB of RAM and some old PIIs and they worked well. It is definitely one option to
get old Wintel hardware for free. The problem is if you want to use your rig for storage you have to use new hard disks and how are you going to hock them up to such rig?
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