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I want to update my ancient Poweredge 4400. It's doing its job well, but it's just cumbersome and so noisy.
I want a PCI-X slot and a platform that's at least somewhat efficient on power usage. I want to keep the cost down(around $100-150 for CPU and mobo), and the options I've found so far are 604 board with LV Xeon, 940 board with undervolted Opteron, and k8n-lr with undervolted Athlon or Opteron.
Xeon would be the weakest processor but well equipped 604 boards are fairly cheap and attractive. 940 stuffs are bit more expensive. Better CPUs but I won't need the extra processing power really. K8N-lr is fairly basic board, so I imagine it uses least amount of power. How well do Athlons and Opterons undervolt? Would I be able to get them to use less power than Xeons on 604? Opinions would be appreciated.
I want a PCI-X slot and a platform that's at least somewhat efficient on power usage. I want to keep the cost down(around $100-150 for CPU and mobo), and the options I've found so far are 604 board with LV Xeon, 940 board with undervolted Opteron, and k8n-lr with undervolted Athlon or Opteron.
Xeon would be the weakest processor but well equipped 604 boards are fairly cheap and attractive. 940 stuffs are bit more expensive. Better CPUs but I won't need the extra processing power really. K8N-lr is fairly basic board, so I imagine it uses least amount of power. How well do Athlons and Opterons undervolt? Would I be able to get them to use less power than Xeons on 604? Opinions would be appreciated.