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Old 12-18-2011, 07:13 PM  
Brad Mitchell
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Originally Posted by raymor View Post
No way. I have one that's underclocked. Overclocking means you're trading reliability for CPU and possibly FSB speed. Neither CPU nor FSB is the bottleneck for a server in 99% of cases, so there would be NO benefit to overclocking them. You'd only be losing reliability for no gain.
What Ray said!

A little less traditional as a server, but something like one of the new core i7-2700k processors or even the new X ones would give just about the highest performance for least $. Considerations still include chassis heat removal/airflow and not using ECC memory.

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