Folding Forum

Thanks for the feedback everyone. I had not really considered the power costs. Looks like the i5 is the right choice. Great having some place to ask these questions.

Thanks, I found out the i5 is a 3439. Two years old. My gut tells me that the Xeon is the right choice as it has a total of 16 cores vs only 2 on the i5. I am just not sure how FAH works with the Xeon chip compared to x86 (I think that is the right nomenclature) chip. Any idea on what the expected P...

I have been folding for many years, but it has always been on a desktop PC. I have a need to bring up another system for a project (home use) using Ubuntu. 90%+ of the time the server will be idle. I have been offered a choice from a friend a Xeon 4x - X7350 server or an single processor i5 (not sur...