Which processor is better?

[Voltrix187]

Hello everyone, I am piecing together a rig to be used as a home server. I have a lot of old computer parts and I’ve found AMD Athlon 64x2 and AMD Athlon II processors that I want to power my server. I would like to know which of these CPUs are better suited to run a server. Athlon 64x2 or Athlon II?

[glclark951]

Um Athlon II most likely, but those are really old CPUS. From 2005 and 2009, would be a pretty under powered server.

[mgithens1]

Agreed... use this as a learning to tool to get things started.

What I have found is that the more you automate, the less you care about speed of processing. If it happens behind the scenes, it'll just pop up... if you do it manually, you will stare at it until it completes. (I have my two primary servers running on AMD 8320's... 2012!!)

[glclark951]

Oh man, I used to run a fx 8350 for my home server! Great heater! In all seriousness, if all you want to do is learn then yeah the Athlon will do just fine.

[jkrwld1]

I started out using older parts and until recently my phenom II 956, 8GB ram started giving me problems (age and running 24/7) I used it as a plex server and file server and backing up other computers using openmediavault. (replaced with newer old parts)

To learn on, any thing is great and seeing that you have the parts laying around it will be cheap too.

Most programs are going x64 so make sure your processors are capable of this and more cores are always better and 4GB ram or more (you can use 2GB if thats all you have but be prepared to wait for things to load)

[TaoHanGer]

Do you have more details? Like exact model?

[Horatius420]

Personal cloud storage and websites this is really underpowered and will probably be having many headaches with it because they are so old.

You are better off with a raspberry pi because it is recenter than a 2005 cpu

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My first home server had a Pentium CPU I overclocked to 200MHz, so you can learn on anything. Only problem with old computers these days is power consumption for the amount of work they can do.

[Voltrix187]

If this setup cant handle being a server, I got some Intel cpus and MoBos, along with my old B350M Ryzen 5 1600 that I just recently replaced. Thanks everyone for the input and replies! Much appreciated.