messerchmidt
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Hello,
A family friend asked me on advice for upgrading thier home server. currently a core 2 e6300 @ 2.8, gigabyte DQ6 board, and 2gb ram. They have a dual nic intel pcie card. This is a rig that I build it for them many years ago when they upgraded to an i7 920 using their old parts and some.
It runs pfsense and windows server 2008 r2 in a vm. They want to add a file server for movies,etc
I am just going to swap the internals.
would a:
AMD A8-7650k apu
GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-D3H (8x SATA, sufficient PCIE slots)
8gb or 16gb ddr3L
some 3-4TB HDs for movies,etc (TBA)
be sufficient for their needs?
it is about 160$ CDN cheaper than a similar intel build using an i3.
Has anyone played the AMD fm2+ as a home server?
It needs to work so they do not call me all the time, etc
Edit: sorry it has 2gb ddr2 and not 4gb of ram
A family friend asked me on advice for upgrading thier home server. currently a core 2 e6300 @ 2.8, gigabyte DQ6 board, and 2gb ram. They have a dual nic intel pcie card. This is a rig that I build it for them many years ago when they upgraded to an i7 920 using their old parts and some.
It runs pfsense and windows server 2008 r2 in a vm. They want to add a file server for movies,etc
I am just going to swap the internals.
would a:
AMD A8-7650k apu
GIGABYTE GA-F2A88XM-D3H (8x SATA, sufficient PCIE slots)
8gb or 16gb ddr3L
some 3-4TB HDs for movies,etc (TBA)
be sufficient for their needs?
it is about 160$ CDN cheaper than a similar intel build using an i3.
Has anyone played the AMD fm2+ as a home server?
It needs to work so they do not call me all the time, etc
Edit: sorry it has 2gb ddr2 and not 4gb of ram
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