On 08/23/11 5:17 PM, Thomas Dukes wrote:
I would like to upgrade my system to a 64 bit machine. I'd like to find a bare bones platform to build on. I'm not looking to spend a lot of money on this as it is a home system. I looked on the CentOS sponsor page but only saw hosting services.
I haven't kept up with hardware in years so I'm dumber than dirt on what's out there. I would prefer a desktop so I can stack it. Don't think I need to do the Xeon as that would be overkill for a home user.
any Intel Core 2 or newer, or AMD Opteron processor from about 3-4 years ago or newer would suit you just fine. the newest ones have 4+ cores.
This would be replacing my 'server' so I need PCI slots for an additional NIC and a 32 bit video capture card used for zoneminder. Not sure what PCI express is or if my cards would work in those slots. Yep, I'm running 8 yrs old machines, IBM NetVistas. :-(
parallel 32bit PCI is becoming obsolete, although many motherboards have both PCI-E and legacy PCI slots... PCI-Express is not physically or electrically compatible. ISA is totally history, you won't find an ISA slot on anything made in the past few years. Most newer NICs are PCI-Express anyways. I do wish more desktop motherboards had 2 ethernet ports, and more servers had 4 standard.