BlackBriar Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 I'm looking to finally replace my 10 year old server. I only really use this as a media server with a couple of dockers - nothing fancy like VMs etc. Does the Pentium G5500 (probably paired with an ASRock B360M-HDV motherboard) have enough grunt to take care of the basics? Would upgrading to a G5600 make any difference? Many thanks for your time. Quote Link to comment
pappaq Posted July 22, 2019 Share Posted July 22, 2019 Absolutly. The system will stand between the SOC systems like the J4105 boards and an i3 8100 performancewise. It will combine the low power consumption and the benefits of a "fullsize" platform. If you want to go crazy with many docker containers I recommend to go with 16GB RAM. You won't see any difference in a reallife cenario between a G5500 and a G5600. -> https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5600-vs-Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5500/m469126vsm484140 Quote Link to comment
BlackBriar Posted July 22, 2019 Author Share Posted July 22, 2019 20 minutes ago, pappaq said: Absolutly. The system will stand between the SOC systems like the J4105 boards and an i3 8100 performancewise. It will combine the low power consumption and the benefits of a "fullsize" platform. If you want to go crazy with many docker containers I recommend to go with 16GB RAM. You won't see any difference in a reallife cenario between a G5500 and a G5600. -> https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5600-vs-Intel-Pentium-Gold-G5500/m469126vsm484140 Many thanks - that's exactly what I needed to know (and hoped for!). I think I will only use a few dockers, so will probably leave it at 8gb for now, and upgrade to more if needed further down the line. Thanks again. 1 Quote Link to comment
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