Low budget bundle and PSU

scotsdragon

scotsdragon

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Just got back from Uni prep course (network and management design) and the head guy of my coarse suggest getting a raspberry pi 2, after pricing up everything id need which came to about £110.

I remembered I have loads of spare bits lying about (as you do) all I need is a cpu, mobo and psu as I have case, ram and HDD's lying about.

Ive I set my budget to that of the PI 2 £110-120, which cpu and mobo combo would allow me to make Linux boxes, Linux/windows server and be able to handle python programming and small amounts of virtualization.

I thought something like

CPU

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CP-377-AM&groupid=701&catid=1967&subcat=1946

and

Mobo

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-603-AS&groupid=701&catid=1903&subcat=2808


Psu

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=CA-073-BQ&groupid=701&catid=123&subcat=2462

which would cost 106 pound with my free shipping

if you guy can think of anything better id love to see it :), but keep in mind 120 is probably my highest limit.
 
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dual core pentium is multiple times faster than the am1 stuff, not sure how the lesser amount of threads would effect virualization however.
 
Mrjobby said:
dual core pentium is multiple times faster than the am1 stuff, not sure how the lesser amount of threads would effect virualization however.
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Clock-for-clock in multithreaded tasks the Kabini is actually slightly faster than a dual core pentium.

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/1265?vs=1223

Note this is the 3.2 GHz G3258. The reason the Pentium looks so much faster is all down to its 56% higher clock speed.

Look at "x264 HD Benchmark - 2nd pass - v3.03" for example.
G3258: 16.87 FPS, or 5.3 FPS/GHz
5350: 11.13 FPS, or 5.4 FPS/GHz

In other words one Pentium core = 2 Jaguar ones. Add on the Pentium clock speed advantage and it's pretty convincingly faster.

But is it worth an extra £26 (+26% of the total budget)? Up to you OP.
 
will it do what i need (intel/amd i am not bothered, i need to get one that will do what i need it to do), after checking my finances i could stretch to max £150 (i get free delivery ,so £150 is it)

What would you suggest RJC and guys for my requirements as posted above?
 
What about the Intel Pentium K Anniversary G3258 Socket LGA1150 Processor but the good thing about AM1 is it uses less power about 28watts
 
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scotsdragon said:
will it do what i need (intel/amd i am not bothered, i need to get one that will do what i need it to do), after checking my finances i could stretch to max £150 (i get free delivery ,so £150 is it)

What would you suggest RJC and guys for my requirements as posted above?
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The Kabini will probably do the job yes, especially if the recommended system is a Raspberry Pi (quad core ARM CPU at 900 MHz)! Whether you go Kabini or Pentium is up to your personal preference really.

Pi : "£110-120", very small, very low power, can do things only pi's can do, quad core [email protected], microSD slot for storage is like an SSD
Kabini: cheapest (£94), low power, quad core [email protected]
Pentium: (£117), dual core@3

I'd probably go for the Pi just because I'd like to tinker with one. Especially if you've already got a main PC.

In fact, why on earth aren't you just using a virtual machine???
 
virtual machines are good, but i find you encounter more problems with real ones and since my main focus is on learning how to diagnose i figured why not? and when im done playing i can turn it into something more permanent.
 
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