bagel93

either vlc or handbrake. in either a linux or xp environment. most likely linux being its a light OS. a quick search shows no xeon3380 processors on ebay. 4cores4threads@3.16ghz. i wonder if a roughly gtx660 gpu could handle part of the load.

Recently I picked up a fully operating dell r200 server with a xeon3220 and 4gb of ddr2 for 20$. initial plans was to host a small website, one that would possibly see 3-4 users simultaneously. The need for a transcoding server just arose and i dont believe it has the balls to transcode x8 1440p@25fps h.264 streams to 720p@5fps mjpeg for my mobile viewing pleasure. The biggest cpu i believe i can cram in to the lga775 socket is a xeon3380 or xeon3370 along with 8 or 16gb of ram, not sure what it will support. So i guess my question is can it host the website and transcode. or should i move on to a slightly newer server.