What to do with a dual xeon server?

[JOHNGALT99]

Last night I aquired a dual xeon 2.4, 2 gb ram, 6x60 10,000 RPM scsi hard drives in raid, dual power supplies, tyan motherboard U2 server for $300.

Now what should I do with it?

Video: make it into a video editing/encoding machine?
Will the 64 bit PCI slots take 32 PCI cards?
Or a myth TV back end

Virtual Machines: Use it to run VMware

Pasword cracker: Make it into a password cracking machine?

Sell it: Sell it for more than I got it for?


Would love to hear your suggestions

Galt

 

[amdhunter]

sell it.

 

[Gunslinger08]

Originally posted by: JOHNGALT99
Last night I aquired a dual xeon 2.4, 2 gb ram, 6x60 10,000 RPM scsi hard drives in raid, dual power supplies, tyan motherboard U2 server for $300.

Now what should I do with it?

Video: make it into a video editing/encoding machine?
Will the 64 bit PCI slots take 32 PCI cards?
Or a myth TV back end

Virtual Machines: Use it to run VMware

Pasword cracker: Make it into a password cracking machine?

Sell it: Sell it for more than I got it for?


Would love to hear your suggestions

Galt

Definitely not a VM machine. VMs need about 2 gigs of RAM each to not run slow as piss if you're doing anything remotely taxing (developing, hosting, etc).

 

[Syrch]

pr0n server?

 

[fbrdphreak]

Play solitare on it.

 

[JOHNGALT99]

hmm pr0n server

Keep the ideas coming

wish this thing had a agp port.

Maybe I should trade on the for FS/FT forum

 

[LeadMagnet]

use it to keep your room warm

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Definately pr0n server. You should be able to recoup your $300 by Friday.

 

[JOHNGALT99]

anyone know if I can put a 32 bit PCI card into a 64 bit PCI slot?

 

[Homerboy]

seriously sell it for the $$. That will fetch good cash.
It's a waste to use that if you don't need it. Take the money and buy something you could actually use.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: JOHNGALT99
anyone know if I can put a 32 bit PCI card into a 64 bit PCI slot?

no you can not

 

[theknight571]

Give it to me.


or... use is for a Multimedia server.

Copy all your DVD's and MP3s to it, place it in your basement, and network it to your Multimedia PC for movies on demand and MP3 playback.

 

[JOHNGALT99]

What do you think it would go for?
$800 ish?

Maybe I will ebay it.

 

[jfall]

Damn good price. We have a lot of Tyan servers, they aren't bad.

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: JOHNGALT99
What do you think it would go for?
$800 ish?

Maybe I will ebay it.

haha more than that thats for sure
what brand is the server or parts?

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: Homerboy

Originally posted by: JOHNGALT99
anyone know if I can put a 32 bit PCI card into a 64 bit PCI slot?

no you can not

Yes you can.

You cannot put a 5V only card into a 3.3V slot though. Many vidcards are universal.

 

[George P Burdell]

Sell it, you'll turn a nice profit.

 

[JOHNGALT99]

Tyan Thunderbird i7500 (s2720) Motherboard
2 Intel Xeon 2.4Ghz Processors
2GB of Memory
6 68GB SCSI Hard Drives
Plextor 12/10/32 CDRW SCSI Drive
Dual Hot-Swappable Power Supplies
1 10/100 NIC
1 100/1000 NIC
1 Video port
1 Parallel Port
1 Serial Port
4 USB ports

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: theknight571
Give it to me.


or... use is for a Multimedia server.

Copy all your DVD's and MP3s to it, place it in your basement, and network it to your Multimedia PC for movies on demand and MP3 playback.

Thats a total waste. First off he'll be paying $50 a day to keep that thing running. 2ndly WTH does he need that kind of horsepower for in what (as you described) would be a file server? I have a fileserver in my basement that is a XP1500+ 256MB RAM and a TONS of large IDE drives in RAID5. 6x60GB in RAID5 gives him 300GB storage... big deal

 

[MisterJackson]

a password cracker? wtf? why?

 

[JOHNGALT99]

not sure the drive brands, but they are ultra wide scsi 10,000 rpm
its going to need a new u2 case though, the front doors arent great

 

[FrozenCanadian]

Originally posted by: LeadMagnet
use it to keep your room warm

Yeah I could use it as a space heater. Just my first guess. But you could sell it to some unsuspecting person for 800-1200 LOL.

 

[JOHNGALT99]

password cracker, because I just wrote one myself in c++ that is dual thread capable

 

[Homerboy]

Originally posted by: JOHNGALT99
not sure the drive brands, but they are ultra wide scsi 10,000 rpm
its going to need a new u2 case though, the front doors arent great

part it out and sell in FS/Trade
thats what I just did with left over hardware from some decommissioned servers here at work and turned $1000 profit and the parts were certainly less than yours

 

[Demon-Xanth]

http://tyan.com/products/html/thunderi7500.html

I think we used to use that board in some systems. We ended up throwing out about a dozen zero channel raid cards because the board went obselte.