<html><head></head><body>I would NOT buy a new cpu from craigslist. It comes with no warranty and CPUs have infant mortality like hard drives. Unless you're replicating/replacing an existing/explicit system, buy cpu, ram, mobo from a dealer than can provide a warranty. Static damage is subtle and craigslist doesn't do dealer reputation tracking.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On September 4, 2017 9:07:13 PM EDT, Narahari 'n' Savitha <savithari@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">As always, Thank You DJ.<div><br /></div><div>I am not that concerned about the power aspect of this whole thing.</div><div><br /></div><div>I found this CPU <span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:medium"> </span><a href="https://atlanta.craigslist.org/nat/sop/d/intel-core-ighz-cpu/6284494809.html" class="gmail-result-title gmail-hdrlnk" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-variant-numeric:inherit;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:medium;line-height:inherit;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:none">Intel Core i7 2600 (3.8Ghz) CPU</a> for sale on craigslist.</div><div><br /></div><div>This CPU has a Pass score of 8217. I presume purchasing the CPU on craigslist is safe in terms of reliability. </div><div><br /></div><div>I have to purchase cooler, paste for the motherboard.</div><div><br /></div><div>Where can I check compat issues of Motherboard with Linux ?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br /><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 7:33 PM, DJ-Pfulio <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:DJPfulio@jdpfu.com" target="_blank">DJPfulio@jdpfu.com</a>></span> wrote:<br /><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Look at other builds on other sites. Look at their parts list. Do you<br />
have all those things?<br />
Case, PSU, compatible video card, HDDs, cables, power cords, .... CPU<br />
thermal paste? Oh - and a CPU cooler? Some CPUs come with a cooler,<br />
others do not. Usually old CPU coolers cannot be used, but old ATX<br />
cases and ATX PSUs work fine, unless you have a $500 GPU that needs 2<br />
extra power connections to work.<br />
<br />
I have never needed more than 10G of RAM. My main VM server has 16G, but<br />
8G is always used for disk buffers. I think having more is a waste,<br />
unless it is cheap. DDR3 is fairly cheap. DDR4, not so much. My media<br />
center server (not a player) has 8G.<br />
<br />
OC is 100% optional. You only need a MB that supports it if you want to<br />
do it.<br />
<br />
Did you leave CPU performance overhead for the extra non-transcoding<br />
things you want? You might be able to assign specific CPUs to specific<br />
VMs, if that works on these AMD CPUs.<br />
<br />
Did you consider the CPU watts in your calculations? AMD has a history<br />
of using 30-50% more power. Is that acceptable? The newer Ryzen CPUs<br />
were 125, 95, and 65W (I think). I was specifically picking a 65W<br />
version that included a CPU cooler.<br />
<br />
I would search for Linux compatibility for that motherboard and whatever<br />
GPU you've got. Support for some older AMD Radeon GPUs has been dropped.<br />
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On 09/04/2017 06:02 PM, Narahari 'n' Savitha wrote:<br />
> Need to pick your brains on finding the best CPU/MB/MEM combo. Please help.<br />
><br />
> Let me start off saying I am taking a cheap route.<br />
><br />
> Went to get Passmark of 5500 and above from<br />
> <a href="https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.cpubenchmark.net/<wbr />cpu_list.php</a><br />
><br />
> Cheapest reasonable cpu at Microcenter with these ratings. Prices below<br />
> are at Microcenter.<br />
><br />
> Intel Core i3-7100 @ 3.90GHz 5895 $96<br />
> AMD FX-8320E Eight-Core 7509 $80<br />
> AMD FX-8350 Eight-Core 8942 $100<br />
><br />
> If I pick the cheapest one at $80, I work from there to motherboard on<br />
> pcpartpicker.<br />
><br />
> Here I see many, but what criterion for motherboard, Star ratings ?<br />
> Dont know if video is built in? I dont need video builtin since I have<br />
> vid card<br />
> 4 mem slots is good. Atleast 32G supported is a good thing to consider<br />
> right<br />
><br />
> I picked Gigabyte<br />
> (<a href="https://pcpartpicker.com/product/T69KHx/gigabyte-motherboard-ga78lmtusb3" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://pcpartpicker.com/<wbr />product/T69KHx/gigabyte-<wbr />motherboard-ga78lmtusb3</a>)<br />
> for $55, comments say not overclockable but CPU in microcenter is Black<br />
> Edition aka Overclockable, so need OC board right ? (cant find that info<br />
> on the summary page though for mother boards.)<br />
><br />
> From here I worked towards DDR3 2400 memory. This is Corsair 16G $120.<br />
><br />
> Is this pretty much it ?<br />
><br />
> My cost is coming to $260.<br />
><br />
> Is the approach I am taking correct ?<br />
><br />
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