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breadturbo

breadturbo

breadturbo

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An amd phenom 9650 quad, 4gb ram, 160gb sata
and a quad cpu 3.2ghz xeon, 8gb ddr1, 3x 36gb scsi300 HP machine

think its worth putting the HP as my router? (only recently put the amd as this but just acquired the xeon machine for the princely sum of £13.85 on a well known auction site)


**edit its in one of the spare rooms so noise doesnt matter
 
I can’t see that HP pulling less than 150 Watts, so it going to cost well over £100 per year in electricity charges.

Is there some special reason you want to use an old server as a router? There are some valid reasons for using PC based routers, but you’d normally use hardware that doesn’t end up leaving you thinking that your energy supplier has just asked you to bend over!

There are good reasons why you can buy old servers for peanuts.
 
no reason at all just i got it cheap :P

also i currently have my Q9650 @ 4.6ghz
then an Q6600 @ 3.8ghz, another Q6600 @ 3.6ghz, an E6400 and an E5200 running 24/7

electricity isnt a prob :P

Im using the phenom as a router now and its LOTS faster than the old hardware routers i've had plus i can leave torrents on overnight on it :)

I was wondering whether the quad xeon would be any good being older, then i could shift the amd to doign qwhat the others do, EVE online :P
 
Why don't you just buy a decent router? Routers with sufficient bandwidth to easily handle the fastest available domestic broadband connections aren’t that expensive.

If electricity isn’t a problem then you’re either inflicting the cost on someone else, or you just enjoy wasting money.
 
Well, the Xeon would certainly handle it. I used to run a 500Mhz AMD K6-2 box on IPCop and it barely broke a sweat. If energy is no problem, go ahead, you can set up a nice transparent web proxy cache too
 
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