Small File or Game Server

[rough_neck]

Received this little case today from Maplin





I'm going to build a server for gaming and/or file sharing.

What I need to buy now is a small motherboard. I’m looking at the epia range. However if I decide to use it as a game server I’m not sure whether or not that the top of the range epia would be any good.

[joshwa]

i think the epia 1ghz nehemiah should be okay, i'm using the via epia 800 as a webserver, and apart from my broadband connection being a bit slow, it's doing fine

http://joshwaller.tk

[elneckio]

I've seen a via of some description in the black version of that case but with a blowhole and some fancy lighting. Real nice case.

As far as serving I would imagine the 1ghz would be fine, I have a friend running apache on the old 533 normal version and his site always seems to load up at a decent speed.

[rough_neck]

Originally posted by www.josh.org.uk
i'm using the via epia 800 as a webserver

I think I'm going to purchase the EPIA-M10000 Nehemiah and 512MB PC2100 Ram.

Is it me or is RAM going up in price again??

BTW what power supply do you use www.josh.org.uk??

Thanks

rough_neck

[joshwa]

Originally posted by rough_neck
I think I'm going to purchase the EPIA-M10000 Nehemiah and 512MB PC2100 Ram.

Is it me or is RAM going up in price again??

BTW what power supply do you use www.josh.org.uk??

Thanks

rough_neck

i just use a standard atx psu (as i've not got it in a small case) , but www.mini-itx.com sell a 55w silent psu that would probably fit your requirements.

Josh

[acidrainy]

55w ?
thats a bit low is it not??

[elneckio]

I have a feeling I saw one (quiet itx psu) for sale in the trade section.....

Here : http://forums.hexus.net/showthread.php?threadid=307

[rough_neck]

Originally posted by acidrainy
55w ?
thats a bit low is it not??

Taken from mini-itx

"VIA claim a 10% drop in power consumption for the Nehemiah M10000, which would give it a maximum power consumption of about 23 or 24W"

A hard drive is about 3 watts (I think) not sure about a slim line cd-rom drive?

Total wattage then would be around 30watts...

rough_neck

[walibe]

Yeah 55 watts will be plenty. It seems in todays world of 450-550 watt psus people forget just how efficent computers can be.