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lol yes that was something that did cross my mind.
I've just been reminded I have a Socket A box sat out in the garage doing naff all, so thinking of getting a decent PSU and new case for that and putting in a 4 port sata card, good idea/bad idea ?
I am thinking of building a NAS too, which I can also run VMs on etc. I was quite tempted by the HP microserver however I decided to wait to get my own miniserver (as I really wanted more PCIE slots) and it seems that intel is targetting this section of the market, with some low power Xeon chips and Micro-ATX motherboards, asus, gigabyte, supermicro and tyan are all making matx boards for them (some major buy in there!) I like the look of the tyan S5510 myself, 3 gigabit nics, IPMI2 2 x8 PCIE (opened ended) 2 x4 PCIE (8 mechanical) combine that with a 45W 4 core E3-1260 and up to 32 GB of ECC memory. Case wise PC-V354 looks nice being m-atx and fitting 7x3.5" drives and 4x2"
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My socket A boxes drank power like crazy even when idle, and turned it into lots of heat with noisy fans.
Any modern fileserver box I would want to be capable of decent gigabit ethernet performance, and for all the heat and fan noise Socket A just wouldn't be up to that task.
Socket AM3 chips start at £24 for single core:
http://www.ebuyer.com/product/168973
which is rated at 45W at load, should sip just a few watts when idle.
would be great if I could find a mobo just as cheap !
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