So, I decided to buy a new machine, I'll divide the selection process into parts, and I'd like to have your input, so please, comment ! If you need some help with the french blog interface, send me an e-mail.
The goal is to have a new "desktop" machine, but very powerful. I want to run Gentoo on it, with a stable and unstable one (probably using the vserver technology), while having a secure home (with a raid1). It will have to run vmware (I need Windows for some accounting software for my company), and I want it to be extremely quiet (probably some watercooling). Ah, and dual-screen, because it's better :)
So, first part: processor and motherboard. Well, the choice, to have a performance machine, is between Intel Core 2 Duo and AMD Athlon 64 X2. My choice will be the Athlon, in order to try the 64 bits. According to the AMD Model comparisons, I reduced the choice to a socket 939 processor (I have no need for sub-performance DDR2 memory), either a 4400+ (1MB of L2 cache, 2.2 GHz, 89W) or a 4800+ (1MB of L2 cache, 2.4 GHz, but 110W). I'll check what is available and at what price when everything will be done.
For the motherboard, I'm far more undecided. Reducing it to the socket 939 is good, but the choices are still overwhelming. I don't need SLI or crossfire, as I only want to do dualhead mostly for 2D (probably a Matrox Parhelia). But I want a firewire port (ieee1394), SATA 3Gb/s (sata2), at least one PCI Express x16, and classical input devices: PS2, at least.
That leaves quite a number of boards:
- Asus A8N-SLI SE
- GigaByte GA-K8NF9 Ultra(Rev 2.x)
- Abit AN8 32X
- ASRock 939SLI32-eSATA2
And probably quite a number of other cards... I'd like your opinions.
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1 De Honor - 11/09/2006, 11:58
Intel has 64-bit technology (called EMT-64) for the Core 2 Duo, and it works perfectly on my E6600.
For the DDR memory, DDR2 is only better than DDR1 on high frequency.
Athlon use a integer memory divisor, so to have the best memory, we must divide the processor frequency by a integer to obtain memory frequency. For a 2.2GHz processor, you should use a 400 Mhz memory and since DDR is better at low frequency stay on 939. If you take a 2.4GHz you can use a 400, 533, 800 Mhz memory and buy a AM2 with DDR2-800 (It will cost).