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On Thursday 05 Nov 2015 23:45:11 thelma@×××××××××××.com wrote: |
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> I'm putting a new box, it will run Gentoo (hylafax, Asterisk) and |
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> Windows 7 in VirtualBox (mainly). Box will run 24/7. |
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> Below are the components. Will I have a problem with any of them or is |
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> there a better choice? |
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> (the box need to be small as I don't have much room). |
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> - INWIN BL631 Low Power Micro ATX Case w/300W power supply |
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What is the PSU? For a 24-7 server/workstation this becomes a critical |
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component and other than your SSD a cause of early failure. Buy something |
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with good quality capacitors (Japanese), or be prepared to get your soldering |
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out in the not too distant future. |
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> - Gigabit GA-78LMT-USB3 w/DDR3, 7.1 Audio, Gigabit Lan |
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> - Samsung 850 EVO Series Solid State Drive 1-TB |
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Will you be eating up as much as 1-TB of data on a day to day basis? I would |
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suggest you buy two SSDs and set up a RAID1, to guard against SSD failure, |
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plus a spinning drive for filesystems that are re-written frequently (e.g. |
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application caches), critical data and back ups. |
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> - LG GH240 SuperMulti 24x DVD Writer, SATA (not sure if I even need it)? |
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If you don't need it I'd save your money and spend it on a better CPU, MoBo, |
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and/or RAM. |
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> - Kingston HyperX FURY Black 16GB DDR3-1600MHz CL 10 Dual Channel (4x |
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> 8GB) Total 32GB RAM |
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Unless you will be running large databases and websites in RAM I can't see you |
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ever using up all of this. I'd save the money and buy faster memory (2133MHz, |
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or 2400MHz), or if speed (O/C) is not important buy ECC memory instead. |
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> - AMD FX-6300 Processor 3.5GHz w/ 14MB Cache |
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A reliable workhorse and easy to O/C, but rather dated and overtaken both in |
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performance and economy by Intel's products. If economy features in your |
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requirements and you don't do heavy gaming you may want to consider AMD's APUs |
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like Kaveri. In a few years you will probably save in electricity the small |
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difference in price. |
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You will need a better cooler for either, if you are going to O/C them. |
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> - Asus GeForce GT610 CMS 2GB PCI-E w/ DVI HDMI |
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Regards, |
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Mick |
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