Hello,
Not knowing much about hardware (I'm a web developer) I'm hoping that some of you hardware-clued up people would be kind enough to offer me some advise/your opinions...
So to give you a little bit of background, Yesterday I ordered a few bits online to build a new home server to, I didn't want to spend the earth but I bought the following CPU and motherboard, the details of which are as follows:-
Intel Core i5 4670K 3.40GHz Socket 1150 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Asus B85M-G Socket 1150 VGA DVI HDMI 6+2 Channel HD Audio mATX Motherboard
Then I just thought would it actually be better to use the old hardware from my old(er) gaming machine for the server of which the stats are as follows:-
Intel Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz Socket 1155 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Asus P8Z68-V PRO Z68 Socket 1155 8 Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard
My new home server will run various services on top of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS, these are as follows:-
My main question though, based on the two hardware specs above above I cannot work out what to do for the best, I'm not sure if the Generation 3 i7 would be better used in the new server (have 8 usable cores and 8MB cache) or if the Generation 4 i5 would actually be better (being newer) to be in my gaming rig instead? - Another problem is that the server motherboard I bought is (I assume) a 'budget' motherboard for the server as I figured it doesn't need to be anything special but do you think that the gaming rig if I did replace the i7 with the i5 would suffer from the non 'pro' motherboard? or as the i7 hardware is a couple of years old now the new i5 and motherboard are either on-par with or better and therefore use the i5 for my gaming rig and the i7 hardware for the server?
Any help and recommendations would be extremely helpful in helping me make a decision before I start putting the new server together this afternoon!
Many thanks for taking the time to read and I really value any opinions and advice!
Thanks,
Bobby
Many thanks,
Bobby
Not knowing much about hardware (I'm a web developer) I'm hoping that some of you hardware-clued up people would be kind enough to offer me some advise/your opinions...
So to give you a little bit of background, Yesterday I ordered a few bits online to build a new home server to, I didn't want to spend the earth but I bought the following CPU and motherboard, the details of which are as follows:-
Intel Core i5 4670K 3.40GHz Socket 1150 6MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Asus B85M-G Socket 1150 VGA DVI HDMI 6+2 Channel HD Audio mATX Motherboard
Then I just thought would it actually be better to use the old hardware from my old(er) gaming machine for the server of which the stats are as follows:-
Intel Core i7 2600k 3.4GHz Socket 1155 8MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor
Asus P8Z68-V PRO Z68 Socket 1155 8 Channel HD Audio ATX Motherboard
My new home server will run various services on top of Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS, these are as follows:-
■File server
■ISC BIND and DHCP server (for internal DNS and DHCP)
■Virtualbox Headless (for development and test VM's) - I guess the i7 would be better here as I'd ■have 8 cores instead of 4??
■DLNA media streaming server
My main question though, based on the two hardware specs above above I cannot work out what to do for the best, I'm not sure if the Generation 3 i7 would be better used in the new server (have 8 usable cores and 8MB cache) or if the Generation 4 i5 would actually be better (being newer) to be in my gaming rig instead? - Another problem is that the server motherboard I bought is (I assume) a 'budget' motherboard for the server as I figured it doesn't need to be anything special but do you think that the gaming rig if I did replace the i7 with the i5 would suffer from the non 'pro' motherboard? or as the i7 hardware is a couple of years old now the new i5 and motherboard are either on-par with or better and therefore use the i5 for my gaming rig and the i7 hardware for the server?
Any help and recommendations would be extremely helpful in helping me make a decision before I start putting the new server together this afternoon!
Many thanks for taking the time to read and I really value any opinions and advice!
Thanks,
Bobby
Many thanks,
Bobby