Green duel core system

[Khyron320]

I am going to rebuild my clarkconnect router due to overloading the system with too many task.

Im currently running an old 700mhz celeron (believe its a coppermine). However the box just doesnt cut it anymore. With services like squid, snort, bittorent, on top of its traffic routing services the box is due for an upgrade.

Please dont make suggestions to switch to a less resource hungry open source router package. Im sticking with CC i have allot of features ive grown used to in CC.

So anyways the current box draws 33 watts idle and around 47 under load when squid is trashing the HD.

I have already ordered an 80% efficient power supply.

AMD Athlon X2 BE-2350 Brisbane is what im currently looking at

Is AMD the only real way to go for power efficient setups?

All of the intel power efficient stuff seems to be mobile only. I dont want a goofy mobile motherboard setup. What about a C2D underclocked?

 

[Khyron320]

I just found a good source if these guys are accurate

e2160 draws 12 watts idle?
http://www.digit-life.com/arti...-e2140-2160-page3.html

 

[MegaVovaN]

How about E2140 or E2160, their stock speeds are pretty slow and CPUs are economical. If you underclock it it will draw even less power, while being insanely fast compared to what you have now.
I don't know how these low end dual cores (just dual core - these aren't "Core 2 Duo") copare to AMD cpu you listed.

 

[InflatableBuddha]

What about the new dual-core Celerons (E1200)? I suppose the only caveat is that they have even less cache than the Pentium-Dual Cores (512KB vs. 1MB)

How important is the cache memory to this machine?

 

[Replay]

Some motherboards are power hogs.

Saw in a mobo review that the total system wattage is very low for AMD 690G 690V AM2 chipset motherboards, yet performance is very good. The north bridge is widely used in laptop designs. Onboard video is good enough for Counter-Strike Source. Stock X2-4000 Brisbane chips are cheap, cool, reasonably fast, and OC if needed 2.1 to 3.1GHz, undervolt on some mobos. Popular mobos with HTPC crowd. Next gen., 780G?, are due this month.

 

[bob4432]

here is a thread i started. i need to do my current setup which is a gigabyte p35-ds3l and a e2160. i am will be moving most of the stuff to the e2160 machine here shortly and have reading for it.

hope this helps

 

[piasabird]

There may be a big difference when it comes to low power or green application which motherboard you use. Some motherboards tend to have better low power states than others. I think I saw something on this in a comparison between the approach that Asus Uses and Intel Motherboards. I think I remember Intel being the winner.

http://www.extremetech.com/art.../0,1697,2099782,00.asp

I think Intel has some newer Celerons coming out like the E1400, and E1600 that run almost as fast as the E2160. Even better might be the newer 45nm low end processors scheduled to replace the E2160 on the low end.

 

[BlueAcolyte]

You could use a laptop based desktop if you didn't mind the glitches. They sell some socket 479 motherboards at newegg.

EDIT: I need to learn to read.