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New Server!
Posted by: coius on 2008-11-11 07:41:16
after working on some Dell XPS systems that someone pulled out of a dumpster, i told them I would take $50 off their bill if I could grab on. it didn't come with anything pretty much except the motherboard, the CPU, the case, and a few fans. It has a passive cooler for the heatsink, but has a funnel over it that has a fan at the end. Anyways, this is the system (I can't find the model numbers, I just have the discs 3 of them came with 2k OEM Stickers, so I had to use that and the driver disc supplied)

DELL XPS (but I really don't think it's the board that's supposed to be in it)

Pentium 4 3.02Ghz w/ 533Mhz FSB. Socket-775 I believe (just the pads are on the CPU, it's got something like a ball-grid-array on the bottom for contact to the CPU) w/ HT

1.5GB RAM DDR-400Mhz RAM (4-RAM slots, Interleaved on two of them (dual 512MB) and one of the second pair is filled with a 512MB)

3x PCI-X Slots, 1x AGP 8x Pro (with AGP Pro Card, GeForce 7600GT 128MB)

No HDD (Gonna add tri-1TB HDDs w/ PCI-X 3.0Gbps SATA FakeRAID Card

CD-ROM, 4 Fans

I have a copy of Server 2003 (Legit) that I got from MSDNAA a while back

It has Dual Gb-Ethernet on it (two of them, one over each set of USB 2.0 ports)

Quad-USB Ports on the front, IEEE 1394a on the front, IEEE 1934a on the back. 6 USB 2.0 Ports on the back

This will go in a closet, headless and serve as not only my personal webserver, but also my internal storage

Posted by: gobabushka on 2008-11-11 07:54:17
yea, wat u describe its socket 775

Posted by: MacG4 on 2008-11-11 08:27:56
nice score man

Posted by: benjgvps on 2008-11-11 13:01:49
Headless Storage... Any Pentium 3 should work... That thing is a monster!

Posted by: wthww on 2008-11-11 14:59:07
Sorry for not being impresed, but this like the third time you've posted, "OMG NEW SERVAR" and really, totally not 68k.

possible troll>

Posted by: coius on 2008-11-11 22:18:39
turns out the CPU is a 2.8Ghz CPU w/ 533Mhz FSB. It's got Dual Channel DDR Slots, and it's also got 512k L2 Cache

I tell ya, HT CPUs are gonna be so much fun. I can do much more with the server with 2 virtual CPUs than one. Mainly, as media work done on it will be faster and I can run more threads and get better results. This isn't just going to be a server for files. There is MUCH More in store for it 🙂

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