I'm going to be upgrading my home server soon from v1 to 2011. I'm currently running it on a Sempron which does an adequate job. Just wondering if there would be any benefit changing the CPU to the Athlon single core. Other than a lower power draw does it have anything else to offer?
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Sempron To Athlon Single Core
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Yea that would be a big help, for instance moving from a Sempron 3300+ socket A to an Athlon 1700+ or something would be a downgrade. Need to know the platform and cpus in question.
So their both single core with 1MB of cache, but the Sempron is 1000Mhz faster, unless im missing something from the specs I fail to see how this is an upgrade? You would need one hell of an architecture advantage to beat that raw processing power.
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Yea looks like a big downgrade lol. Since its AM3 aren't duals or quads really cheap?
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Wouldn't quite say that, people assume since its a 'Sempron' its the 'Celeron' (there have been many good celerons as well though!) of the AMD lineup, and that any 'Athlon' would be better, not realising that a Sempron of newer vintage could've been a relabel of an older Flagship class cpu etc..
I only ask as I've read reports of the Sepron struggling with 64bit OS.
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Better off with a multi cored upgrade, dual, tri or quad.
That is the other option I will look at. But I was careful not to use the word upgrade as the Sepron does the job for server 2003 and I'm hoping it will for 2011 but if it does struggle with a 64 bit OS then I just want something low powered that will do the job.
Think you have answered your own question.
Try the current chip, upgrade if necessary. A dirt cheap AM3 dual should be a decent upgrade but entirely depends on what you wish your server to do.
I would guess that if your chip does what you want on 2003, than 2011 should not load the CPU a great deal more - so should be okay
.If it does then the slower Athlon would too. The are 3Ghz duel core Athlon II X2 chips for sale on OCUK for £50 that are 64bit and have 2MB cache, one of those should be fine for a home server I would have thought. I don't have any experience with 2011 Personally as I have stuck with WHS V1 on my home server as 2011 drops support for drive extender (the folder level mirroring) and that's my favourite part but I can't imagine 2011 having much higher requirements than V1.
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Thanks for that. I think I will pick up a dual core while I can anyway as it might come in handy for the future.
I didn't realise drive extending had been dropped, it's a brilliant feature. Going to have to re think my whole plan.
I didn't realise drive extending had been dropped, it's a brilliant feature. Going to have to re think my whole plan.