64x2 Home Server recommendations?
Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:16 am
I'm starting to do research on replacing my 2-year old Dual Athlon server - it uses 400-500 watts at idle. Ick.
I'd like to get an Athlon64x2 machine, but keep it as low power (no fancy graphics cards - it's going to run Linux in the basement).
I'll probably replace my 5 73 GB SCSI RAID-5 drives with 3 250 GB SATA-II drives in a RAID-5, too, hopefully reducing power.
Any motherboard recommendations that do 64x2 with C'n'Q?
Any good case recommendations for a server - I seem to enter this thing more often than I should. .
Any other advice? I was thinking of possibly using one of those CoolerMaster 120mm Water Cooling things, since they're under $100 these days, but I suppose for a basement server, just a honkin' huge case with lots of airflow would work just as well...
(Oh, and I'm going to be a student again, so cost is a concern, of course. )
Thanks!
I'd like to get an Athlon64x2 machine, but keep it as low power (no fancy graphics cards - it's going to run Linux in the basement).
I'll probably replace my 5 73 GB SCSI RAID-5 drives with 3 250 GB SATA-II drives in a RAID-5, too, hopefully reducing power.
Any motherboard recommendations that do 64x2 with C'n'Q?
Any good case recommendations for a server - I seem to enter this thing more often than I should. .
Any other advice? I was thinking of possibly using one of those CoolerMaster 120mm Water Cooling things, since they're under $100 these days, but I suppose for a basement server, just a honkin' huge case with lots of airflow would work just as well...
(Oh, and I'm going to be a student again, so cost is a concern, of course. )
Thanks!