Looking to build a server (£200-£300)

Also without linking to another site will CT2KIT102464BA160B RAM work in a T20? And I can still keep the 4GB it comes with inside to make it 20gb?

Cheers
 
Just figured you can get the G3220 DELL T20 for as low as £70

One of the larger UK retailers has them for £155 with 10% cashback available through Quidco making them £140 minus the £70 Dell cash back.

At that price they'd even make cheap Desktop/Browsing type machines
 
Frozennova said:
Just figured you can get the G3220 DELL T20 for as low as £70

One of the larger UK retailers has them for £155 with 10% cashback available through Quidco making them £140 minus the £70 Dell cash back.

At that price they'd even make cheap Desktop/Browsing type machines
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Nice just found it by looking at list of 10%'s :D now that is a bargain! Going to have to just go for it and then find best place for hdd's after :D
 
Just a quick update as I ended up going for the cheaper Pentium server as I very much doubt I will use the Xeons extra features and the saved cash can go towards an SSD and some more memory. Thanks to everyone who helped :)

EDIT: I have since changed my mind and gone with the Lenovo TS140 as the other server offer had ended but I found out my server needed more power after everyone else in the house decided they wanted to stream from the servers Plex library. Typical I would be told this once the offer ends :rolleyes:
 
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Just a quick update as I ended up going for the cheaper Pentium server as I very much doubt I will use the Xeons extra features and the saved cash can go towards an SSD and some more memory. Thanks to everyone who helped :)
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Nice :) I plan to get 1 early next month so planning what drives to get now :)
 
The Poweredge T20 offer with a Xeon CPU doesn't seem to be on anymore?

I would dive in on a Proliant but with I'm not sure with a Celeron it'll be able to run several VMs like I want it to. Also there's no RAID support by default, correct? Will possibly need that for MCSA Server 2012
 
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The cashback for the model with the Xeon... has INCREASED to #110, from #70 and is valid until the end of February - I just checked on Dell's website.

The only problem now is searching for somewhere that still has them in stock ;)
 
crinkleshoes said:
The cashback for the model with the Xeon... has INCREASED to #110, from #70 and is valid until the end of February - I just checked on Dell's website.

The only problem now is searching for somewhere that still has them in stock ;)
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Thats the issue as everywhere is out of stock because of the increase in cashback. :(

Still the TS140 (Although not as good an offer) is probably the best offer out there at the moment for a Xeon based server
 
Yup... I even had someone send me a trust message asking me if I knew where to get ahold of one... hehe.

Unfortunately I only found the awesome offer, the first few sites I located were out of stock.

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The Poweredge T20 offer with a Xeon CPU doesn't seem to be on anymore?

I would dive in on a Proliant but with I'm not sure with a Celeron it'll be able to run several VMs like I want it to. Also there's no RAID support by default, correct? Will possibly need that for MCSA Server 2012
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What is it that you want to do with the VMs?

You might think you need more than you really do.
 
crinkleshoes said:
Yup... I even had someone send me a trust message asking me if I knew where to get ahold of one... hehe.

Unfortunately I only found the awesome offer, the first few sites I located were out of stock.



What is it that you want to do with the VMs?

You might think you need more than you really do.
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Domain Controller, file server, 8.1 client, probably Exchange/0365 at some point down the line; essentially something that mimics the TLG base configuration laid out by Microsoft http://bit.ly/1XBUbJe
 
You reckon? Could you link me to some RAM that would be 100% compatible? NVM seen some on Crucial, £110 for 16gb seems steep...
 
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The biggest choke point there will be HDD, not CPU. Modern celerons are quicker than you might think and the CPU demand for all that you list but the 8.1 client will be very low.

As for RAM... I seem to remember someone finding some Kingston compatible memory for about 70-80 quid for 16GB, but I'm afraid I don't have the link.

ECC memory usually holds a bit of a premium, but I don't think the Kingston is as much as the Crucial in this instance.
 
Found it, google this code:

KTH-PL316E/8G

16GB for 90-95 quid.

Although you might be OK buying just 8GB to expand it to 10-12GB combined with the original 2 or 4GB stick... share the ram allocation between the machines with low requirements - you can set both hyper-v and esxi to share resources and allocate on demand, you don't need to define static allocations any more.
 
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