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General Forums => Hardware and Software => Topic started by: AKcurly on May 21, 2003, 01:47:37 AM
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Like many of you, I have a small network at home. I have 4 static IPs; I have a maillserver which runs DHCP for anyone who needs to connect.
My mailserver is *really freaking old* since it's always constructed of old parts I've saved from days gone bye. I decided to replace my mailserver with a new box and wanted to avoid the expense of a P4. But, I have a nice central heating system in my home, so I didn't want to installl an AMD cpu. It's summer anyway, so no point in making the a/c work harder.
Instead, I bought a "soyo bare bones" system. It came with: 128 meg ram, case, power supply, 667MHz Via C3 CPU (guaranteed not to dissipate more than 10 watts), power cord, onboard video and onboard sound. It cost $79.99 and I got it from TigerDirect. It works great!
It occurred to me than many of you have youngsters. If you have a spare monitor/hard drive/keyboard/cdrom/mouse, man, you have a very inexpensive system.
curly
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Thanks for the info !
Actually a machine like that would make a great little dedicated server for just about anything if your on broadband. mail server, ftp server, or any game you like to host (if it runs in dedicated mode and doesn't suck up video resources).
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Well that looks like a nice option for me to put up a real backup system here at the house. Especially after this past weekends lightning fiasco.