Recent content by Captiosus

Yeah I know, I clicked on the link on the first post and it took a good 3-4 minutes for the page to load. Getting to the project main page took another couple of minutes.

Oh goodie. I've been meaning to join them ever since i started BOINCing on a regular basis.

No, the selected E3 cannot do dual. If you are looking at intel server processors, the first number always tells you the number of sockets it can work with. 1xxx is one socket, 2xxx is 2, 4xxx is 4, and 8xxx for the fairly rare and exceedingly expensive 8P systems. As for boards, I'm not the...

Yeah all modern chips are 64 bit. As for other things you should be looking at other than clock and core count, you'll be wanting something with hyperthreading since you run virtual machines. Real cores, half cores, or fake cores, virtual machines love threads. AFAIK if you want more ram...

As an owner of an E5-2690, i can tell you that it is a colossal upgrade vs a core 2 quad. I ran a fairly large number of benchmarks to compare the Xeon to my old (Overclocked mind you, 3600mhz) Q9400, and in all of them save a couple, the Xeon was the superior chip by a large margin every...