Small and powerful servers

[liambennett98]

Anyone Know of any good, Small and powerful Servers ?

 

[CydiaDash]

wat? Quite vague

[Sir Asvald]

Anyone Know of any good, Small and powerful Servers ?

The use of them?

Anyway any supermicro from eBay.

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/supermicro-1u

[Jacktastic-Mofo]

Are you trying to run a game server or build a home media server. I don't understand.

[Oshino Shinobu]

For what? What type of server?

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Anyone Know of any good, Small and powerful Servers ?

I would recommend changing the title to, any small and powerful servers

[manikyath]

depends what the server needs to do.

[Fictionvl]

Hello, please next time use the title properly, I think it's against the CoC to use unclear titles or something I'm not sure.

Second, please elaborate on what's you mean by servers, there are so many servers for so many different things.

[liambennett98]

its going to run xenserver so i can have a instance running a game server, and another running a Home Media Server

[iHardware Shelden]

The use of them?

Anyway any supermicro from eBay.

http://www.ebay.com/bhp/supermicro-1u

Assuming you want something like this than ebay is a great option also craigslist.

[PlayStation 2]

Hello, please next time use the title properly, I think it's against the CoC to use unclear titles or something I'm not sure.

Second, please elaborate on what's you mean by servers, there are so many servers for so many different things.

that's actually kind of a stupid rule but i digress

 

Maybe an FX-8320 or Xeon setup?

[Flight1sim]

Ingles' plz 

What do you even mean?

[manikyath]

its going to run xenserver so i can have a instance running a game server, and another running a Home Media Server

thats way overkill for what you're doing.

 

just build a small pc and toss linux on it. (or any windows variant if the game server is windows only)

EDIT: what game, and a bit more in depth on what kind of media server.

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its going to run xenserver so i can have a instance running a game server, and another running a Home Media Server

what about building a server (I think you can but I am not sure)

[iHardware Shelden]

its going to run xenserver so i can have a instance running a game server, and another running a Home Media Server

I would just put together a Hasewell Xeon system or as recommended above check out ebay or craigslist.  I believe you would benefit from multi-core and single core performance again depending on the game servers.

[Guest]

Linux + the Lenovo W Series.

 

Or the System76 ones.

[KemoKa]

What do you want the server to do?

I have an APU laptop that I'm planning on running as a home server blade. It's small, fast and efficient, and will get the job done, but I can't very well render anything on it. Depends on the use case scenario.

[liambennett98]

yeah i could build one, in a 4 u Case

[Oshino Shinobu]

what about building a server (I think you can but I am not sure)

A server is just a purpose really. It's essentially just a PC, but the hardware is often specifically designed for a use case. 

[Sir Asvald]

Assuming you want something like this than ebay is a great option also craigslist.

Yeah. Any bidding sites, that are trusted and are genuine. I get my networking equipment from eBay for cheap. I bought a couple of network switches from eBay,as well as a Dell PE 2950

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A server is just a purpose really. It's essentially just a PC, but the hardware is often specifically designed for a use case. 

thanks, I thought so but I wasn't sure

[PlayStation 2]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($128.99 @ Directron) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($19.89 @ OutletPC) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($44.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($39.49 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.88 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: Asus Radeon R5 230 1GB Video Card  ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($32.99 @ Micro Center) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $416.20

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-22 16:57 EDT-0400

It's overkill but you can run multiple game servers at once.

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Anyone Know of any good, Small and powerful Servers ?

what about using one of your computers? (maybe one that you don't need) (and maybe upgrade it)

[manikyath]

 

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

 

CPU: AMD FX-8320E 3.2GHz 8-Core Processor  ($128.99 @ Directron) 

CPU Cooler: Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus 76.8 CFM Sleeve Bearing CPU Cooler  ($19.89 @ OutletPC) 

Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-78LMT-USB3 Micro ATX AM3+ Motherboard  ($44.98 @ Newegg) 

Memory: Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB (2 x 4GB) DDR3-1600 Memory  ($39.49 @ Amazon) 

Storage: Western Digital Caviar Blue 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive  ($49.88 @ OutletPC) 

Video Card: Asus Radeon R5 230 1GB Video Card  ($29.99 @ SuperBiiz) 

Case: NZXT Source 210 (Black) ATX Mid Tower Case  ($32.99 @ Micro Center) 

Power Supply: EVGA SuperNOVA GS 550W 80+ Gold Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply  ($69.99 @ NCIX US) 

Total: $416.20

Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available

Generated by PCPartPicker 2015-08-22 16:57 EDT-0400

It's overkill but you can run multiple game servers at once.

 

not to pick on amd, or your building skills, but NO! NOT AT ALL!

 

first off, generally game servers are single threaded, or very badly multithreaded, making some of intel's options more appealing.

together with that comes that intel just is more energy efficient, which is actually rather important when the machine is running 24/7, for more reasons than only the energy bill.

 

adding in that intel chips generally have built in graphics (one of the best picks in the xeon family price/performance wise is actually one with integrated graphics)

 

also, i'd rather not recommend anything at all, before we know specifics of what game server, because even xeon might be falling out of the boat on this one.

[PlayStation 2]

not to pick on amd, or your building skills, but NO! NOT AT ALL!

 

first off, generally game servers are single threaded, or very badly multithreaded, making some of intel's options more appealing.

together with that comes that intel just is more energy efficient, which is actually rather important when the machine is running 24/7, for more reasons than only the energy bill.

 

adding in that intel chips generally have built in graphics (one of the best picks in the xeon family price/performance wise is actually one with integrated graphics)

 

also, i'd rather not recommend anything at all, before we know specifics of what game server, because even xeon might be falling out of the boat on this one.

I tried to do it really cheaply rather than per-core performance. Meh, a Xeon option shouldn't be THAT much more expensive.