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July 8th, 2009, 10:26 PM
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| | A hero in training
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Originally Posted by Milwaukee  win xp pro would work
I try on dell poweredge before it show 2 cpu and 3.5 gb rams.
Before you do. Do you have enough $ for electric bills they would add about $20 per months if it turn on 24/7
They are way powerful than my laptop it so fast you could open firefox under 2 sec vs normal computer 3-4 sec. But they kind noisey due fans spin full speed. |
This system does not support windows xp, only Win2k3/2k8 server edition. Even if you could it would be a total waste | 
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July 9th, 2009, 12:48 AM
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mmmn, cheers for all your help guys. It sounds like i could be able to have a sweet thing, as long as I can get things to fit into the expansion slots (pizza box is a good description, It's a very slim unit.)
Ground Zero, are you sure it wont run Windows 7? That would be the operating system I would want to install. | 
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July 9th, 2009, 08:43 AM
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Originally Posted by conehed mmmn, cheers for all your help guys. It sounds like i could be able to have a sweet thing, as long as I can get things to fit into the expansion slots (pizza box is a good description, It's a very slim unit.)
Ground Zero, are you sure it wont run Windows 7? That would be the operating system I would want to install. | I really wouldnt bother. It would be extremely troublesome and time consuming, and then it might not work. You have to go around finding very specialized (and more expensive) parts and in the end the results may not be what you expected. Worse still, youre screwed when you want to upgrade.
You will probably get a faster gaming system than that if you sold it (and a all round better consumer computer).
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July 9th, 2009, 08:45 AM
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#24 (permalink)
| | A hero in training
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Originally Posted by conehed mmmn, cheers for all your help guys. It sounds like i could be able to have a sweet thing, as long as I can get things to fit into the expansion slots (pizza box is a good description, It's a very slim unit.)
Ground Zero, are you sure it wont run Windows 7? That would be the operating system I would want to install. | Their site has no drivers or mention of any desktop operating systems support. Its a server based platform so im not sure what Windows 7 will find, and how you would get drivers. Again im not really sure, windows 7 might find everything and be fine, however xp would be a different story. In the end this machine was built to be a high end server, not a gaming/desktop machine | |
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August 24th, 2009, 06:45 AM
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| | Swine flu stopper
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Main issues are redundancy and reliability. Servers are built to run 24/7, and to have ways to failsafe data. Home computers are designed to run for a few hours at a time, and don't have any failsafes for data (like hot swap redunant hard drives). There are other differences, but those are robably the most important.
Cheers
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