Got a (very) old Quad CPU server here, worth doing anything with?

Strife212 · 7 May 2008 at 11:08

I saw this ages ago in a computer shop, it was around £200 I think. It was interesting so I bought it

I tested it when I bought it and it boots and works.

Here are the specs, all I know about it myself:

The hard drives are 10,000RPM SCSI drives, the CPU's are 200Mhz Pentium Pros.

And here it is, currently serving as a stand for my consoles

marc2003 · 7 May 2008 at 11:46

hmmn, that's one mighty large door stop.

i suppose you could use it as file server/download box. not much else it can do really.

z0mbi3 · 7 May 2008 at 11:48

The case is pretty cool. The rest would probably be crazily energry inefficient though.

aproctor · 7 May 2008 at 11:49

you could use it as a superfast media centre.

Lanz · 7 May 2008 at 11:53

aproctor said:
you could use it as a superfast media centre.

Its Slooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, 4 x Pentium Pro 200's is about as fast as a Pentium 3 500mhz.

I would maybe sell the disks and bin it.

pingwing · 7 May 2008 at 12:02

WOW thats rather cool! stick a small opengl pci card in it ind have some random retro multi-tasking gaming on the thing! Or failing that give it a raz with linux if you have any free time

WillSpengler · 7 May 2008 at 12:05

Lanz said:
Its Slooooooooooowwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww, 4 x Pentium Pro 200's is about as fast as a Pentium 3 500mhz.

I would maybe sell the disks and bin it.

I've still got a Tiny PC which has a P3 500 Mhz processor. MMX people! That thing tore paint off walls in its day!

milkinc13 · 7 May 2008 at 14:17

some sort of case mod, sell hard drives & use other hardware for firewall or something like that, or run linux on it

Ethics · 7 May 2008 at 14:20

Yeah linux is great for old junk like that

make a fileserver/download box, or a firewall as suggested above (also Linux) or a development machine if you're into that.

benjo · 7 May 2008 at 14:22

Definately mod the case

caithomas44 · 7 May 2008 at 14:28

As a linux file server it would be great, make sure you have a energy efficient PSU in there and keep it as a network hub and file server

aproctor · 7 May 2008 at 15:37

the superfast bit was refering to the hdd, you could sell them they will get you some cash easily i would have thought.

bledd · 7 May 2008 at 15:57

good for the bin

daz · 7 May 2008 at 16:00

The SCSI drives are probably worth £25 each.

aproctor · 7 May 2008 at 18:06

£100 then

EdGey · 7 May 2008 at 19:19

as said above,

defo mod the case

whitecrook · 7 May 2008 at 20:11

The processors will ran fanless for silence. I run dual slot 1 PIII 450's with just a massive hs on each one.

the 10,000 rpm drives may make a bit of a noise though. Acess times may be pretty fast, even by todays standards.

Strife212 · 7 May 2008 at 21:18

I think it was a pretty serious server at the time it was made. It has triple redundant PSU's at the minute, no idea how much power the thing sucks up :eek:

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Doing up the case sounds like a good idea, its absoloutely massive.

brakeinup · 8 May 2008 at 12:26

Sell the drives and use the case as a fire safe.