Hi, I am in the process of setting up my first dedicated web server. This is what I will be using it for: As a Media Server w/ WHS 2011 with Windows Server 2008 R2 in visualization for hosting my websites. My question is what hardware should I use? I am thinking about purchasing this: Ebay Poweredge 840 Xeon Quad Core I already have Sata hard drives and memory so I can max it out to 8 GB. My other option is that I have a AMD Phenom II 955 x4 and all I would need to do is by a new motherboard, probably this one: ASRock AM3+ Mobo So which CPU would be better? The Xeon 3210: # of Cores 4 # of Threads 4 Clock Speed 2.13 GHz L2 Cache 8 MB Bus/Core Ratio 8 FSB Speed 1066 MHz FSB Parity No Instruction Set 64-bit The Phenom II 955: # of Cores 4 # of Threads 4 Clock Speed 3.2 GHz Hyper Transports 4000MHz L2 Cache 4 x 512KB L3 Cache 6MB 64 bit Support Yes Thanks, Danny
