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<blockquote data-quote="AIstudio" data-source="post: 522394" data-attributes="member: 63135"><p>Hi jonm,</p><p> Yeah i know what you mean about power consumption, starting to look at this myself at the mo as the cost of bills is getting a bit, weelllllll, REDICULOUS in this country!!!</p><p>I hadnt thought about the OS yet. I was going to go for a rock solid XP with SP3 setup, BUT, MP have noted that they wont support it in the future as things will move to Vista and 7.</p><p>The server will also be used as my server for TV and everything else around the house.</p><p>At the moment i have a powerfull gaming HTPC in the front room. As my media is growing at an alarming rate i really want to move the media to a server as well as the tv cards and drives etc. Then my rig in my front room will be a LOT cooler etc.</p><p>I was hoping to have all the hard drives spun down unless being used to help with power consumption.</p><p>I just dont know if the CPU's in an old Dell 670 will be good enough for vista x64 or 7x64 OS's ???</p><p>They do seem like a powerfull little system and would be great at a relatively cheap cost. To put it in perspective, if i buy a motherboard, ram, cpu etc etc it is going to cost a LOT more than £150.</p><p>I was hoping to put the 670 guts into a 4u case and just set it all up and install the OS etc. Put it under my stairs and connect it to the network.</p><p></p><p>If anyone has any thoughts about the Dell and Vista x64 or 7 x64 please shout up before I do something i regret lol.</p><p></p><p>Thanks</p><p></p><p>Kev</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AIstudio, post: 522394, member: 63135"] Hi jonm, Yeah i know what you mean about power consumption, starting to look at this myself at the mo as the cost of bills is getting a bit, weelllllll, REDICULOUS in this country!!! I hadnt thought about the OS yet. I was going to go for a rock solid XP with SP3 setup, BUT, MP have noted that they wont support it in the future as things will move to Vista and 7. The server will also be used as my server for TV and everything else around the house. At the moment i have a powerfull gaming HTPC in the front room. As my media is growing at an alarming rate i really want to move the media to a server as well as the tv cards and drives etc. Then my rig in my front room will be a LOT cooler etc. I was hoping to have all the hard drives spun down unless being used to help with power consumption. I just dont know if the CPU's in an old Dell 670 will be good enough for vista x64 or 7x64 OS's ??? They do seem like a powerfull little system and would be great at a relatively cheap cost. To put it in perspective, if i buy a motherboard, ram, cpu etc etc it is going to cost a LOT more than £150. I was hoping to put the 670 guts into a 4u case and just set it all up and install the OS etc. Put it under my stairs and connect it to the network. If anyone has any thoughts about the Dell and Vista x64 or 7 x64 please shout up before I do something i regret lol. Thanks Kev [/QUOTE]
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