Good Cheap Server - HP Proliant Microserver 4 BAY - OWNERS THREAD

The PCI-E slots provides a maximum 25W IIRC. AMD 7750 is about the fastest I think on that budget.

An AMD 5450/6450 is good enough for HTPC duties.
 
60W>25W. ;)

Most desktops have a 75W PCI-E 16x slot. The Microserver isn't really designed to run a graphics card - it's a small business server so it'd typically run a NIC in that slot.
 
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I did successfully run a low profile 7750 in my microserver for a while. It is technically over the power rating but it did ok for me, allowed a few games to be played but was obviously rather down on cpu grunt. I could play WoW and various of the Lego games though.
 
nails666 said:
I did successfully run a low profile 7750 in my microserver for a while. It is technically over the power rating but it did ok for me, allowed a few games to be played but was obviously rather down on cpu grunt. I could play WoW and various of the Lego games though.
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borderlands 2?
 
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Is anyone running a Linux setup using Btrfs? I'm tempted to give it a go, but I'm aware its still officially 'experimental'. I'd be interested in others experiences.
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I'm yet to give BTRFS a go but I've been toying with the idea for a while, I have been using ZFS on Debian for 2 years now without a hitch which is equally experimental
 
easyrider said:
borderlands 2?
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Hmm, might be pushing it, the games I played were pretty tolerant of any little drops in frame rate, not sure how something like Borderlands 2 would fare.
Unfortunately I've since retired my microserver from HTPC duties and replaced it with a dedicated little Kabini based box so it's now sat on a shelf, running headless in my office so I can't try it out for you I'm afraid.

Thinking about it though, when I was using it Steam Home Streaming wasn't out so I was running the games on the N54, wonder if it would work better as a streaming box from a proper pc?
 
Just bought a HP Microserver G7 N54L with 60Gb SSD, also got a 4tb My cloud and a 4TB internal HD, any suggestions on what I can do with it, I intend to install plex server but what else do ppl use there's for?
 
A lot of people (myself included) use then for some form of backups. I have all my media stored on mine using Plex for streaming with all data duplicated using Drivepool and then important stuff backed up offsite using CrashPlan. I also have my parents backups stored on it also via CrashPlan.
 
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