Hello everyone,
My fiance has a Sony desktop that had to be reformatted. Unfortunately, she didn't have the software install disks, so she lost all her drivers. I bought a new MoBo for her in December and planned to install it, along with my old sound card and video card so that she would have a well-functioning system again.
I finally got around to installing it today and it was just more work than it was worth, IMO. I decided we should buy the drivers and software from Sony (a copy of WindowsXP and Adobe Premiere for $17 is not a bad deal anyway), so her computer will be working just fine soon anyway. So now I have an extra mobo to mess around with.
I have been looking at building a file server that may double as a web server and a media center PC. I am going to build this partly out of parts that I have on hand, so I am wondering if this setup will be high-powered enough for what I want to do with it.
Soyo p4vgm v1.0 socket 478 Mobo
Have a 1.3gHz Celeron on hand
Will buy 1gb of PC2100 RAM
GeForce 4 mx440-8x 64mb
Various hard drives (30gb, 40gb, 80gb, 160gb)
XConnect 400w PSU
Is the processor going to be fast enough to run Windows Media Center?
Would it be fast enough to run Media Center reasonably well?
Is a file server more dependent on memory or CPU?
I am not looking to spend more than $125 on this project. Money is tight. Any advice is helpful!
My fiance has a Sony desktop that had to be reformatted. Unfortunately, she didn't have the software install disks, so she lost all her drivers. I bought a new MoBo for her in December and planned to install it, along with my old sound card and video card so that she would have a well-functioning system again.
I finally got around to installing it today and it was just more work than it was worth, IMO. I decided we should buy the drivers and software from Sony (a copy of WindowsXP and Adobe Premiere for $17 is not a bad deal anyway), so her computer will be working just fine soon anyway. So now I have an extra mobo to mess around with.
I have been looking at building a file server that may double as a web server and a media center PC. I am going to build this partly out of parts that I have on hand, so I am wondering if this setup will be high-powered enough for what I want to do with it.
Soyo p4vgm v1.0 socket 478 Mobo
Have a 1.3gHz Celeron on hand
Will buy 1gb of PC2100 RAM
GeForce 4 mx440-8x 64mb
Various hard drives (30gb, 40gb, 80gb, 160gb)
XConnect 400w PSU
Is the processor going to be fast enough to run Windows Media Center?
Would it be fast enough to run Media Center reasonably well?
Is a file server more dependent on memory or CPU?
I am not looking to spend more than $125 on this project. Money is tight. Any advice is helpful!