This is just a little project which I will probably never get around to doing. But what would be the cheapest route to getting a reasonable quad core setup? It doesn't have to be the fastest, most cutting edge. If I ever get around to it then it is for a cluster of Java application servers running on virtualisation servers to play around with. So raw mhz is useful but not as important as budget. Memory is significant though, so a cheap processor offset with expensive RAM would not be much use. That probably means I'd be looking at DDR2 which is dirt cheap right now?
So what's likely to be the cheapest budget CPU for at least 4 cores? Opterons, Xeon's, C2Q's, Socket F AMD's, etc?
So what's likely to be the cheapest budget CPU for at least 4 cores? Opterons, Xeon's, C2Q's, Socket F AMD's, etc?