here’s the stipulations on the new build:
it’s got to be cheap, but not ecs mobo cheap. looking to keep it around $150
does not need to be quiet.
i have a decent case, power supply, hard drives, and optical drives already.
i need a new mobo, processor, heatsink/fan, and ram (although i could use the ram in the mobo – it is ddr400, although that is old)
will be running winxp pro, so i don’t really need anything more than 1gb ram, but 2gb is fine
holy crap. Prices have some down (says the guy running 2 939’s and 1 socket A)

yeah…

So cheap! But I would need to buy mobo’s and RAMs for all dem computers too. But dang, that’s cheap!

The only 775 system I have is a vmware server in the closet
what does ot think about the following:

this would actually be slightly faster than my desktop c2d e2200 machine that i just built, because my desktop has slower memory

i think i might just get this and put my current desktop in my closet as a server
I bought one of the HP sXXX models off ubid.com. Got it for 325$ (small form factor computer)

dvd player/burner
vista
2 gig ram
amd 5000+
small form factor

Only thing I needed to buy was a video card (40$) so I could use dvi. Been wroking great. No problems.

Of course I don’t use it for anything else. Just sits there and stores my shit.

PS. The funny part about this is that my sister, at the same exact time, had decided after 7 yrs to buy a new computer. Without knowing what I bought she bought the exact same computer except she got it with 3g ram and the amd 5200+. The humor comes in when I told her what I paid. She paid around 650$.

edit again: Here’s what I got except I got the amd.
Why not just get NAS? Think of your electricity bill.

need something to seed torrents, use tivodesktop, rip drm off of tivo files, may also do double duty with opening rar’s and ripping/burning dvds

a nas can’t really handle any of that, maybe seed torrents on certain models

electricity bill is not a concern

wait wait… are you literally counting the number of shits you take or does 242 = the number of noob 2008’s there are. If the former then

i have taken 242 shits this year. although i had a colonoscopy, so i had liquid shits one night for the cleanout prep. i counted that as 3 shits

anyways, i’ll probably get the hardware i listed at tigerdirect
let me know how that works out. i’m actually considering building a media server myself. one that will run 24/7 seeding torrents, stream movies/music to multiple machines, store my pics, manage the printer, etc. i’ve been out of the hardware game for so long though i have no clue where to begin :-/

Only found on offtopic.com!
finally got sick of my old server. its going to make a decent desktop pc for my parents (it seems to hang more when remoting in or running utorrent – neither of which they will be doing)

should arrive in 2 days

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