Curious about this server I picked up....

[andypress]

I picked up a server from one of my firends for free, his dad got it from some system upgrades. Anyways, it has dual P3 550's, 2 gigs of pc133 Ecc ram, hot swappable scsi drives and a burner. Basically what I'm asking is what is this capable of, and how much would resale be? http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/parasitic/P6190039.jpg

 

[thecoolnessrune]

You could host dedicated servers off of it. and with that much mem, I'd say it would fetch at least $300-400.

 

[andypress]

Forgot to mention. It's a Fujitsu-Siemens Primergy 470.

 

[Megatomic]

You could upgrade those CPUs to 1GHz and get a significant performance increase.

 

[andypress]

The problem is that this motherboard probaly has jumpers on it, and I have no manual, nor does it appear on the net anywhere.

 

[andypress]

Hmm.. the inside of the door says has jumper setting for up to 800mhz, was the 1ghz on a 133 bus?

 

[Arcanedeath]

they did make 1gig coppermines on a 100mhz bus, they were just OEM only as I recall and fairly rare.

 

[Budman]

wow great server box, Can I have it? 🙂

 

[ProviaFan]

Put it on your LAN, load up the OS of your choice with the Apache web server, PHP, and other apps of your choice, and have fun. Remote desktop, VNC, or SSH (depending on OS) will keep you from needing another monitor / keyboard / mouse for continued administration (just pull the stunt I did and disable the LAN connection that you are RD-ing over on the server). 😉

 

[andypress]

Originally posted by: Budman
wow great server box, Can I have it? 🙂

Sorry I think this might be staying here for awhile. The other toy that we picked up was an Alpha 21264. I have no clue what do do with this thing, nor what it can run anymore.

 

[Vegito]

Originally posted by: Arcanedeath
they did make 1gig coppermines on a 100mhz bus, they were just OEM only as I recall and fairly rare.

i have a set of these.. very valueable.. 🙂 i got them from dell pulls..

 

[Sixtyfour]

Originally posted by: andypress
The other toy that we picekd up was an Alpha 21264. Ihave no clue what do do with this thing, nor what it can run anymore.

Can I have that one ?

http://h21007.www2.hp.com/dspp/tech/tec...mentDetailPage_IDX/1,1701,5578,00.html

 

[imported_Kensai]

That would have some pretty powerful pow at a low cost. 🙂

 

[andypress]

It's actually a Siemens-Fujitsu also, in a solid metal case, not one bit of plastic on it. Weighs about 70lbs. Any ideas on an os for it?

 

[mindless1]

Few businesses are looking to newly deploy a ~ 7 year old server. Few individuals would pay much for a box that (for more PC-oriented tasks) is outperformed by a $150 refurb'd box.

It WAS a nice system, but now, you'd be best off parting it out and reusing the case for something more modern, if that's possible.