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Posted December 6th, 2008 at 9:55pm by Admiral Michael
So I miniturized my server.

I got a MSI Fuzzy 690T miniITX motherboard from a friend with 1GB of memory. I used the CPU from my desktop (AMD Athlon X2 4600+) and bought a new one for my desktop (AMD Athlon X2 5400+).

It has 4 hard drives:

60GB Windows Drive
160GB Downloads Drive
500GB Media Drive
500GB Backup Drive

and runs Windows 2003 Standard Server.

Here's a pic if it currently:

http://www.michaelsoft.info/Other/Co...etup/daryl.jpg

I just need a case. The lack of a case was the only thing stopping me from migrating from my old one so I decided to just run it like this for now.

My old server is now my parent's desktop. It has a AMD Athlon 3200+ CPU with an ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard and 1GB of RAM.
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  1. Old Comment
    Thanks. I was laughing so hard I hurt myself. It looks like the cables take up more room than the hardware. Nice job.
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    Posted December 6th, 2008 at 10:16pm by LeeJend LeeJend is offline
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    Posted December 7th, 2008 at 12:12am by Admiral Michael Admiral Michael is offline
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    indyjones's Avatar
    Nice, I was looking at miniITX for my sever, but could not find a motherboard as good as yours at the time. Running micoATX instead now.
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    Posted December 8th, 2008 at 10:53am by indyjones indyjones is offline
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    LordOfLA's Avatar
    turned all my servers off. My electric bill running 4 servers , 2 workstations and an xbox360 24/7 came to £540 for 6 months

    Moved the disks from my fileserver to my pc instead.
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    Posted December 8th, 2008 at 4:06pm by LordOfLA LordOfLA is offline
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    Admiral Michael's Avatar
    Ours is about $250 a month. Gotta bring that down, I'm hoping this may help altho I don't know what the old vs new power consumption is.

    I use my laptop mostly so this is my file server. I have a desktop but I just use it for grunt processing :P I had the desktop originally for gaming but got sick of system requirements so I just bought a XBox 360 instead and switched to console gaming.
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    Posted December 8th, 2008 at 6:35pm by Admiral Michael Admiral Michael is offline
    Updated December 8th, 2008 at 11:16pm by Admiral Michael
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    indyjones's Avatar
    The two main PCs are only on when we need them the HTPC and server live is S3 sleep unless required
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    Posted December 8th, 2008 at 11:43pm by indyjones indyjones is offline
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    I just built myself a new server that is power conscience. 5 1 TB drives (for storage), 2 60 GB drives (for the OS), 65 Watt AMD x2 64 bit processor. It comes out to about the same power consumption as my old server, but with more space and CPU power.

    Currently I personally have 1 file server, 1 gateway and 2 laptops running. The file server and gateway are 24/7 as is expected, and one of the two laptops is 24/7 the other I roam with, and thus is only plugged in when it needs juice and that can be both at home and at school.
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    Posted December 10th, 2008 at 1:55am by X-Istence X-Istence is offline
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    Oh, you definitely don't need a case :P
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    Posted December 10th, 2008 at 1:55am by X-Istence X-Istence is offline
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    failurbydesign's Avatar
    i have a bad ass Vans shoe box...may not all fit but itwould be neat
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    Posted December 10th, 2008 at 5:37am by failurbydesign failurbydesign is offline
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    Admiral Michael's Avatar
    This is the case I was looking at:

    http://www.canadacomputers.com/index...615&cid=CS.874
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    Posted December 10th, 2008 at 7:07pm by Admiral Michael Admiral Michael is offline
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    Admiral Michael's Avatar
    Ok, I needed my desk space back so I bought a case. Enjoy:

    http://www.michaelsoft.info/Other/Computers/Daryl/
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    Posted December 15th, 2008 at 7:14pm by Admiral Michael Admiral Michael is offline
 
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