old server

[wawa]

hi guys, i am rebuilding an old server that i had for free and i am looking for the best processor i can throw at it.

here are the two choice i have:

 

Xeon 5080

or

Xeon 5160

 

the 5080 clock's at 3.7Ghz and have HT and a FBS of 1066

the 5160 clock's at 3.0Ghz and have no Ht and a FBS of 1333

 

witch one would be my best bet.

 

thx

 

Wawa

[The Realist]

7 minutes ago, wawa said:

hi guys, i am rebuilding an old server that i had for free and i am looking for the best processor i can throw at it.

here are the two choice i have:

 

Xeon 5080

or

Xeon 5160

 

the 5080 clock's at 3.7Ghz and have HT and a FBS of 1066

the 5160 clock's at 3.0Ghz and have no Ht and a FBS of 1333

 

witch one would be my best bet.

 

thx

 

Wawa

I would say the 5080 but remember it has a TDP of 130w and the 5160 is slower but has a TDP of 80w so if your power supply can hold the 5080 go for it.

[Electronics Wizardy]

what server. You probably should use these chips as there old and hot. The 5080 is probably faster.

[The Realist]

1 minute ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

what server. You probably should use these chips as there old and hot. The 5080 is probably faster.

It is faster but has a TDP of 130w while the 5160 has a TDP of 80w + the 5080 has Hyper Threading

[Electronics Wizardy]

2 minutes ago, The Realist said:

It is faster but has a TDP of 130w while the 5160 has a TDP of 80w + the 5080 has Hyper Threading

Sorry bout that, 5160 is much faster. The 5080 is a pentium d while a 5160 is a core 2 chip. The core 2 chips are much faster clock for clock and the ht doesn't help much.

[SLAYR]

Why? There are reasons why things are given out for free because that is really old, the oldest stuff even worth anything are the xeon 54xx but even then a newer pentium would probabbly run faster.

[wawa]

i am just looking for the best processor i can throw in a poweredge gen1,

currently inside: 5130,

48gb ddr2ram

original board

 

[wawa]

4 minutes ago, SLAYR said:

Why? There are reasons why things are given out for free because that is really old, the oldest stuff even worth anything are the xeon 54xx but even then a newer pentium would probabbly run faster.

i am just starting with servers, i got this one for free and just want to max it out and play a bit with it. VM's , win server, etc.

[SLAYR]

1 hour ago, wawa said:

i am just starting with servers, i got this one for free and just want to max it out and play a bit with it. VM's , win server, etc.

Yeah okay, just making sure that you weren't trying to run very intense programs on them because those xeons are not too great, but have virtulization support, so have fun playing around with some vms, and stuff.