Fishypops Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Hi, I am looking to move to 6 SATA's. I figure that I might as well go for a revamp: Considering the Haswell G18XX CPU coupled with the GIGABYTE GA-H97N mobo. or the Skylake G3900 coupled with the GIGABYTE GA-H170N Any thoughts ? Recommendations on RAM ? Thanks. Quote Link to comment
tdallen Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 A Celeron will work but it's a low end chip - Passmark scores in the mid/high 2,000s for the 18xx and around 3,000 for the 3900. For $10 more I'd move up to Pentium G3258 and get to almost 4,000 Passmarks. It all depends what you want to do with your server. unRAID will probably work with 2GB of RAM but I would start with a minimum of 4GB since memory is so cheap. Again, it depends on what you want to do with your server. Quote Link to comment
Fishypops Posted June 4, 2016 Author Share Posted June 4, 2016 My Server is used for: 1. Serving Kodi requirements 2. Storing Photos + documents My principle aim is balance power consumption against need. The Skylake Pentium looks good. What do you think ? Quote Link to comment
tdallen Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 So that doesn't have big requirements. What CPU, memory, and unRAID version are you running now? Quote Link to comment
HellDiverUK Posted June 6, 2016 Share Posted June 6, 2016 I've found a decent Haswell board can get better power consumption figures than Skylake. Haswell's power circuit is in the chip, so is quicker to react, leading to less power being wasted. I've seen as low as 14W idle from a Xeon E3-1226v3 on a full size board. That's NUC territory. Quote Link to comment
mr-hexen Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Celeron will be fine for your needs. I used a G1840 for a bit before I was bit by the Plex bug and needed more power. Even then I've upgraded to a modest i5 Haswell. Now i've got this extra G1840 lying around collecting dust Quote Link to comment
plupien79 Posted August 18, 2016 Share Posted August 18, 2016 That'll be fine. My current box has a celeron 1037u motherboard. Onboard 1.8g Ivy Bridge Celeron. It runs Crashplan, and feeds Kodi without issue. Quote Link to comment
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