All the AMD Athlons have virtualization support, while only the more expensive C2D (E8XXX and above) do. So, since you are planing to run VMWare, a low end X2 is almost certainly a better value. Thanks jesse. the Virtualization support isn't that big of a deal for me. Like i mentioned, the XP insta...

rtamburo: Do you know how much power your system pulls at the wall during idle and during load?

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This is pretty interesting. I had been reading about how MoDT was a waste of time, but now i'm thinking i need to go back and look again. Just wondering about the MoDT solutions...most of the CPUs talked about in this thread are the T5xxx CPUs. How do the P8xxx and P9xxx stack up from a power consum...

Hi folks. I'm looking to create a new linux based home server (running CentOS5). The usage is mainly a file server, but will also be running VMWare Server with an XP guest to run quicken and some other relatively lightweight stuff. I'm looking to make it as low power while providing enough oompf to ...