In search for hardware
 

Howdy,

I'm looking for hardware which should comply with the following statements:

1)
motherboard that:
- allows the use of low-power-consuming CPUs
- support for 'a lot' of SATA ports (at least 8).
- onboard gbit lan, (video perhaps)
- not too pricy
- support for at least 2 PCI slots

CPU:
- for the motherboard selected above.
- Note that I have no idea which CPU uses fewest power. Note that computational power should meet Duron 1Ghz speeds at least.

lots of sata + cheap mobo = asrock series

And what CPU should I go for?

About Asrock: the only 8port SATA mobo I found on their website (looking at 775 mobo's) was a 130EUR Pyron (~something), so not that cheap (it's a SLI board btw).

Found this one though, featuring 6 SATA ports:
Asrock 4Core1333-VIIV P965 Sockel 775

Combined with this Conroe CPU (35W TDP):
Intel Celeron 420 1.60GHz S775 boxed

yep that 4Core1333 will do nicely, add in PCI card with 4/8 ports for more; because you're mixing high end requirements (8 port SATA) with entry level price, very hard to find:)

CPU... I would go for E2140/E2160 just for that dual core feeling:)

But it doubles the power consumption :/




How much would those CPUs use idle? (any idea how much the conroe would use idle?)

12W @ Idle

http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...160-page1.html

E21XX series can run perfectly passive with big *** heatsink.

I think we wants a file server with low power usage;

Correcto :)

BTW:
CPU: Celeron 420 (Conroe-L, 1.6 Ghz, 8w during Halt, 35w TDP)



8 <-> 12 is almost nothing, but I suppose computational power difference will be huge between both CPUs..

Was also looking @ the e1200, when I found this:
http://computermonger.com/intel-cele...00-review.html


Performance-wise I should go for the E21xx. Expected the e1200 to use less power, as it has less L2 cache.



How about e8500 & e8200 ? 3W idle, 28-33W load.
They are a bit pricy though :( (but have more underclocking potential)
MOD: forget it, those are too expensive :(

E8200 are expensive, will require more power, will be more powerful then E21xx series;

Massman is selling a E2160 FYI ;)

Could anyone tell me what the idle power consumption of a AMD64 3500+ is? TDP is also 65W (like the E2160)
As these CPUs support Cool'n'Quiet, I suppose/hope it will be low as well.

(my current system uses this CPU, and the motherboard has 8 SATA ports. See where I'm going? ;))




MOD, finally found this:
I have a Venice core. Are these numbers correct? Because they are pretty sweet :)


As I still have a XP120 CPU cooler lying around, passive cooling would be no problem =)

About right I think.

I remember having 3200+ C&Q enabled and when browsing the fan just turned a few second severy 5 minutes... And even then it turned very gently.

Could someone tell me how much energy an AMD Duron 800-1000Mhz CPU consumes when idle?

I'll measure it this evening. Have a durun 700 here.

Thanks!
Information of that kind is not easy to find, unfortunately :( Those days we didn't mind power consumption that much, I suppose :)


Can you measure CPU power consumption? Or will it be the total system (cpu,mobo,ram)?

total of course, unless he's able to solder some resistant directly to the CPU socket to measure power draw;)

anyway, difference between 10W and 30W is not huge BR, let's not get carried away here!

It's not really the electricity costs that make me ponder. The machine is installed in a pretty small place, without any ventilation. In these circumstances, 20W of power can make a lot of difference in roomtemp.

However, (re)discovered athcool (for AMD Athlon/Duron CPUs). Seems to be able to lower CPU temp reasonably (and thus: room/system temp).

Piotke: could you perhaps measure the difference with<->without athcool-like tools? (unless ofcourse, you're not actually booting into some OS). It would be interesting to see how much difference such a tool could actually make :)

Will test, but after werchter.

Thanks!