I'm building a media server, which streams out 1080p high-bitrate video content to many media sinks over gigabit ethernet.
I've bought an Intel DG965WH for a decent price. I'm planning to outfit it with 8GB RAM, two or three 1TB drives, a small USB disk for the OS (<8GB), and FreeNAS or ubuntu-server (or similar Linux based NFS capable package.)
Now, in the manual for this motherboard:
it states that it supports Core 2 Duo. It doesn't say if it supports Core 2 Quad.
Yet, Intel's compatibility guide suggests it does:
http://processormatch.intel.com/Comp...rdname=dg965wh
So, can anyone confirm if this board will run a quad?
The main reason is NFS, the protocol I am using, is inherently multi-threaded, so it would greatly benefit it if I could have four cores. That being said, I'm not going to be using much CPU power, as the activity is mostly network driven, which is DMA. So I'm not sure if I need four cores, but it's nice to have the capability, in case I want to do other stuff like off-load some matlab stuff to it.
I've bought an Intel DG965WH for a decent price. I'm planning to outfit it with 8GB RAM, two or three 1TB drives, a small USB disk for the OS (<8GB), and FreeNAS or ubuntu-server (or similar Linux based NFS capable package.)
Now, in the manual for this motherboard:
it states that it supports Core 2 Duo. It doesn't say if it supports Core 2 Quad.
Yet, Intel's compatibility guide suggests it does:
http://processormatch.intel.com/Comp...rdname=dg965wh
So, can anyone confirm if this board will run a quad?
The main reason is NFS, the protocol I am using, is inherently multi-threaded, so it would greatly benefit it if I could have four cores. That being said, I'm not going to be using much CPU power, as the activity is mostly network driven, which is DMA. So I'm not sure if I need four cores, but it's nice to have the capability, in case I want to do other stuff like off-load some matlab stuff to it.
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