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i5 6500 Server

GrissmIN
By GrissmIN
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If you already have the RAM and MB then I guess you'd kinda be forced to use something like that.  I don't know much about Sky Lake, but there are i3s out there I believe, so for a small server I'd take a guess and say that an i5 wouldn't give much of an advantage?

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Thoughts on using the i5 6500 Skylake CPU as a server CPU? Would any other CPU be better? 

 

The reason for the Skylake platform is that we already have a MB and RAM for the platform - the server is being used as a small business server. 

 

That should be fine, how much RAM will it be running and how may connected clients ?

 

Exchange and SQL will consume a lot of RAM

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Maybe wait until Skylake Xeons come out? If they are coming out soon, go for those. What kind of server also? The 6500 should be good.

 

 

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yeah, the i5 is pretty good if you don't need ecc ram

 

Maybe wait until Skylake Xeons come out? If they are coming out soon, go for those. What kind of server also? The 6500 should be good.

 

they most likely won't support consumer chipsets unfotnately

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