I'm getting 2 free servers from the United Nations and need a few answers
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[QUOTE=Odellus;27994483]RoHS compliance.[/QUOTE]
At-least he won't die a horrible death from lead poisoning.
[QUOTE=culexor;27977574]Keep in mind these are from 2004. They have 2 single core CPUs in them. They are huge power hogs. Even if they were worth $10k in 2004, they are worth no more than a couple hundred bucks now (if you're lucky). Definitely overkill for a file server.
Sorry to be 'that guy' but it's really not even worth it for you to run those since they're probably [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XK1YeCRp5o]quite loud[/url].[/QUOTE]
Formula one racing in your closet!
just wait till some North Korean assasins break into your house, kill your family and steal the servers for their 'Intel'
Folding@Home.
[QUOTE=Nerdrage;28003648]just wait till some North Korean assasins break into your house, kill your family and steal the servers for their 'Intel'[/QUOTE]
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[QUOTE=wingless;28020062]What?[/QUOTE]
I don't think he wants to you as a mod.
[QUOTE=sebmck;28020433]I don't think he wants to you as a mod.[/QUOTE]
But why did he quote nerdrage?
So jelly that I'm jam :L.
[QUOTE=wingless;28020505]But why did he quote nerdrage?[/QUOTE]
Might have been implying that you'd do that.
The absolute best thing you could do with those servers is send them to the scrapper to be recycled. The Xeons in that server are of the old Netburst variety, and even though they have a very high clock speed, even the weakest of the Core 2 line of processors will run circles around them at half the clock speed and 1/2 the operating cost.
The 3.4 GHz Xeons in that server have a 150W TDP each, and no power saving features, so you basically pull a steady 300W (and worse) 24/7. That's not counting the power hungry drives and probably more power hungry ECC memory.
The only thing processors like that are suited for are like a SQL or web server with heavy amounts of traffic constantly, they will not make good game servers. My friend lets me use one of his old Xeon servers for game servers, and performance is terrible. An example would be a Natural-Selection server with 24 slots. The same configuration idle would yield 70% CPU usage on a 2.8 GHz Xeon, and 5% idle on my E6750 server.
[QUOTE=Eltro102;27971866]Still the HDD might not be wiped, you can get machines that can read a HDD without spinnng it
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Yeah because he OP is totally capable of doing such operation, and such machine is totally affordable right?
[QUOTE=Eltro102;27971866]in other news, buy like 4 GPUs and make a quad-sli/crossfire gaming rig[/QUOTE]
Have fun fitting 4 GPUs inside of a 1U rack server
My garry's mod server has you beat, it has a single 2.8ghz core and 768MB of ram
[QUOTE=Elspin;28022766]My garry's mod server has you beat, it has a single 2.8ghz core and 768MB of ram[/QUOTE]
Don't make me setup one on a 800mhz AMD Duron with 256mb of ram
AMDK6 266MHz and 32MB of ram?
Adn a heatsink with no fan on it.
Dangit, sadly I can't set it up because I don't have a keyboard for that.
[QUOTE=tratzzz;28025927]AMDK6 266MHz and 32MB of ram?
Adn a heatsink with no fan on it.
Dangit, sadly I can't set it up because I don't have a keyboard for that.[/QUOTE]
I actually have that too.
Dammit, where's my tinfoil hat :tinfoil:
[QUOTE=Elspin;28022766]My garry's mod server has you beat, it has a single 2.8ghz core and 768MB of ram[/QUOTE]
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2.8 GHz P4, 512 MB DDR 400, 160 GB IDE HDD and a 320 GB SATA HDD.
It's extremely quiet, which is important since it runs 24/7 about 4 feet from my bed.
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