On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 2:02 PM, Michael Hennebry <hennebry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> He has a 3.2 Ghz CPU which is much more then this 3800 but the only >> thing that the 3800+ is good is that it has 2 cores but still same low >> share ram ( I had one of these in the past). > > I'm considering the beast listed here, especially if my current beast dies: > http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883250296&cm_sp=DailyDeal-_-83-250-296-_-Product > I note that it has an Intel Core 2 Duo and 2G of RAM. > It has those in common with a lot of cheap PC's I've seen. > Are there gotchas here that I should know about? > I'm already aware that Core 2 is on Intel's discontiued list. > My current beast has Pentium 4 with 4G of RAM. Depending on what you are doing, you might miss the RAM. You should be able to enable the VTx capability on that if you want to run KVM but the option is hidden somewhere in the bios. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos