Pro/Forums - View Single Post

derelict · 05-19-2008, 07:39 AM

If your server isn't mission critical you'd be ok with a cheapo 400w. Fortunately the 350-500w PSU market is pretty saturated so you could get a decent PSU for only a few more $ over a super cheapo.

I nearly bought a dual PIII server board from a used computer store a few weeks back, it was $15. But I just couldn't justify it, the server was only going to be a file server, and possibly a mythTV backend. I still haven't built my file server yet, I want to have a really low power server. Was thinking about using a recently rolled down Asus A8N SLI-Prem board with 3200+ processor. Not going to wc until I've done so on my P4 poop.

05-19-2008, 07:39 AM	#9
derelict Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Denver, CO Posts: 39	Re: Ben's new server (Project) If your server isn't mission critical you'd be ok with a cheapo 400w. Fortunately the 350-500w PSU market is pretty saturated so you could get a decent PSU for only a few more $ over a super cheapo. I nearly bought a dual PIII server board from a used computer store a few weeks back, it was $15. But I just couldn't justify it, the server was only going to be a file server, and possibly a mythTV backend. I still haven't built my file server yet, I want to have a really low power server. Was thinking about using a recently rolled down Asus A8N SLI-Prem board with 3200+ processor. Not going to wc until I've done so on my P4 poop. Last edited by derelict; 05-19-2008 at 07:48 AM.