Anyone running a AMD X2 or Dual Core system for a Server

[edbmdave]

Looking for feedback. With the amount of CPU transcoding takes for the MVP I have been thinking about moving to a dual core system for my Server. Was wondering what experiences others might have had. How well does Sage work across the dual core? Etc..

[pjwerdna]

I've just built an AMD dual core Sage Server.

I'ts only been about 4 days, but everythings working fine so far although there's not really been enough time to be 100% certain.

Certainly watching TV and ripping a DVD as vob files at the same time works fine and did TV and converting an mpeg to DivX.

[dvd_maniac]

I went from a p4 2.8 HT 1GB DDR400 to an AMD 4400 X2 2GB DDR400. This is my first AMD chip in over 6 years. I do not see myslef buying another Intel CPU again. As for the MVP, I do not have one but I do have 3 clients and the machine doubles as a 24/7 H.264 encoding machine. Not so much as a hiccup so far. Machine has been up for over 3 weeks now...
I bought the 4800+ but it came DOA so I returned it and the only one still in stock was the 4400+. I thought I'd be dissapointed but I'm not.

[Kirby]

I am running a X2-3800 at stock speed (but I have run this processor at 2.6Ghz per core, faster than a X2-4800+) and its doing great. I have 1Gb of ram, and right now I am recording HD from my Fusion, firewire DCT6200 and analog MSI TheatrePro cable show, while playing back another HD transport stream. CPU is just at 20% usage. AMD dual cores cant be beat. And they run cool! Not like Intel dual cores, which can heat a nice sized igloo in the Arctic cirlce when just idling!

[Polypro]

I'm looking at a 3800 X2 Manchester right now. Going to replace a 3000+ Venice. What are your Idle and Load Temps? The 3000+ is a 67w chip, the 3800 X2 is 89w.

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[Kirby]

I cant monitor the temps easily in my HTPC, but my main PC is also an X2-3800, running a Thermaltake XP120 heatsink with a low speed 120mm fan. The fan is thermally controlled and only comes on over 28C. It usually isnt on! Ambient temp is about 73 in my house. These X2's just run cool.

I do know that when I was running my HTPC cpu overclocked at 2.6Ghz (at the time it wasnt a HTPC, just a Xvid encoding machine), that full load temp was 51C. This was with an XP90 heatsink and 92mm panaflo fan. That temp was running 2 instances of Prime95, one on each core. I seem to recall idle temp was 32C, which isnt bad considering I was pushing 1.48V to the CPU.