Commercial Desktops vs. Whiteboxes

scottalanmiller

Agreed 100% - you can take a crusty old beaten up E6400 w/ 4gb ram + i5 and make it fly with a decent SSD.

We have many HP dc5850s which are AMD Phenom II X3 triple core with 4GB or 6GB of RAM. Sounds slow, but because we use 25K IOPS and higher SSDs in them, they are quite snappy for most tasks. It was like going to light speed when we replaced the 7200 RPM drives with the SSDs.

MattSpeller

@scottalanmiller Yes, the SSD was the best upgrade of the last few years. Even today it's (in some cases) much better to upgrade your fleet with SSD over getting new hardware without SSD.

scottalanmiller

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nadnerB

@scottalanmiller said:

<Glorious product review>

BAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
That is all.

bbiAngie

I am running an phenom 1100T at work and it works very well. Great processor
At home I have an FX-8350 and I love it. I tend to be an AMD fangirl but that's because for the money, I think they are great. Yes, I can agree that Intel makes a good processor but for the money, Ill chose AMD hands down every single time.

thanksajdotcom

@bbiAngie said:

I am running an phenom 1100T at work and it works very well. Great processor
At home I have an FX-8350 and I love it. I tend to be an AMD fangirl but that's because for the money, I think they are great. Yes, I can agree that Intel makes a good processor but for the money, Ill chose AMD hands down every single time.

I agree. Don't get me wrong...I love my 3rd gen i7 in my laptop...and Intel does tend to run cooler in laptops than AMDs, but AMD is so much cheaper and, bang to buck, I still say AMD is overall a better buy.

MattSpeller

@bbiAngie said:

I am running an phenom 1100T at work and it works very well. Great processor
At home I have an FX-8350 and I love it. I tend to be an AMD fangirl but that's because for the money, I think they are great. Yes, I can agree that Intel makes a good processor but for the money, Ill chose AMD hands down every single time.

Nailed it right there. AMD is king of the $150 or less CPU market.
Have to say though, the new Intel G3258 is tempting @ $70 (unlocked dual core, people OC to ~4ghz+ for gaming)
http://ark.intel.com/products/82723/Intel-Pentium-Processor-G3258-3M-Cache-3_20-GHz