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MovedGoalPosts · 31-08-2011, 21:50

My office's Dell Server has gone to meet it's maker after 5 years valiant service. The fans whirr away, but that's about it. no beep, no screen output, no flashing lights that it's reading stuff from the RAID SCSI drives.

So whilst we head out to spec and order the new box we had started to think about, but not really sort out, I have to get a temporary box in place as the proper box will take a little while to order, configure, etc.

So the idea is to use the next best PC available. Basically that is going to be one of my home PCs and I'd prefer to avoid giving up my main gaming rig.

Does anyone have any idea how a dual cored and hyperthreaded Xeon 2.8GHz 2MB Cache, 800FSB would compare to a Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz 4MB cache 1066MHz FSB? Is the faster speed of the E6600 going to sort of balance the lack of hyperthreading?

31-08-2011, 21:50	#1
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 62 Posts: 15,868	Temporary Office Server My office's Dell Server has gone to meet it's maker after 5 years valiant service. The fans whirr away, but that's about it. no beep, no screen output, no flashing lights that it's reading stuff from the RAID SCSI drives. So whilst we head out to spec and order the new box we had started to think about, but not really sort out, I have to get a temporary box in place as the proper box will take a little while to order, configure, etc. So the idea is to use the next best PC available. Basically that is going to be one of my home PCs and I'd prefer to avoid giving up my main gaming rig. Does anyone have any idea how a dual cored and hyperthreaded Xeon 2.8GHz 2MB Cache, 800FSB would compare to a Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4GHz 4MB cache 1066MHz FSB? Is the faster speed of the E6600 going to sort of balance the lack of hyperthreading?