January 23, 200818 yr Hey everyone... So I made the decision this past weekend to go ahead with an unraid build and started looking for deals on the components, luckily looks like things have been working in my favor with the right items coming on sale somewhere at the right time. I would appreciate if everyone could take a quick once over at what I have so far, and the price I paid and comment on whether I should go for a different part or have paid a better price. Thanks! Case: CoolerMaster STC-T01-UWK $133.57 shipped (-5% discount for Jellyfish.com, and potential $40 CM rebate = $86.89) TheNerds.net http://www.thenerds.net/COOLER_MASTER.ATXBTX_Silver_Chassis_Black.STCT01UWK.html Motherboard: Asus P5B-VM DO Motherboard $108.11 shipped Lagoom.net http://www.lagoom.com/ASUS_Motherboard_P5B-VM_DO_LGA775/P5B-VM_DO/partinfo-id-569698.html PSU: Corsair CMPSU-550VX $72.99 shipped (-3% for Jellyfish.com, -$15 Corsair rebate, -$10 Buy.com rebate = $45.80) Buy.com http://www.buy.com/prod/corsair-vx-550w-power-supply/q/loc/101/205852646.html Ram: HP 1GB PC2-5300 (DDR2-667) RAM x 2 $45.98 shipped (-$20 HP rebate x 2 = $5.98) CostCentral.com http://www.costcentral.com/proddetail/HP/PX976AT/L49299 Processor: This is the one component I haven't bought yet. Conflicted as to whether to go with the a Celeron D at higher clock speed and lower price, or a Celeron 440 (about $65) with its lower power consumption and better microarchitecture over older Celerons, or with a lower end Alllendale (E2140 for about $70) in case unraid will ever support dual core. Please help me decide which one would provide the best performance for unraid (or are all these processors pretty much more than enough for unraid requirements anyways). The only other thing you may notice is that the RAM i got is 667, while the bus speed of the processor will likely be at least 800Mhz if i go with the celeron 440. I went with this RAM for now because it is decent stuff and is DIRT cheap right now. You guys may wanna pick some up, you can get up to five sticks at 2.99 each after rebate, with free shipping. Is having the RAM at 667Mhz going to affect performance on any noticeable scale? As always, I'm etremely appreciative of everyone's thoughts, suggestions, and comments...
January 23, 200818 yr Memory - Nice catch on the price, I have been thinking of ordering a bunch of ram just because it is cheap. RAM speed will likely have an impact, but I don't believe anyone has done much performance testing. CPU - any of those will perform the same, I would go for low power consumption. Bill
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