Looking for low budget CPU for slave

theEmbark

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I'm trying to put together a slave machine and I need to narrow down a decent CPU/MOBO combo.

This machine is a slave only to run virtual instruments on. It needs a gigabit port and ddr3 ram support would be nice because I have 48gb laying here.

I'm wanting to look at 2 options a single quad core and something like a Socket 771 where I could run 2 quads. AMD or Intel doesn't matter really for this purpose. No real budget in mind just as cheap as I can go and still get a machine that will do the job.

Thanks,
Kevin
 
I'm not sure what your processing power requirements are, but an Atom quad or Kabini quad core machine might work great for you.

J1900 or Athlon 5350 are great low-power CPUs that'll take your DDR3. Socket 771 will not take DDR3, to my knowledge.