amd Cheap AMD Home File Storage Server

[Mascheen Head]

Hi Guys

 

I'm a newbie from South Africa and Intel/Nvidia components are very expensive here. I dont make alot of money & built a little entry level Gaming and Work Setup. I am however, running out of storage. So I am thinking of building a cheap little network file storage pc thingie. I have an AMD A4 APU laying around and thought I could use that right? Is that a good Idea? I've also researched a few parts online that could work for my budget but I'm not sure as how well they would perform.

 

OK so I've got an old chassis, PSU and APU

 

Thinking of purchasing these little guys:

 

Motherboard:

http://www.takealot.com/msi-amd-a55m-p33-hudson-chipset-socket-fm1/PLID27299075

RAM

http://www.takealot.com/transcend-ddr3-1600-cl11-ecc-dimm-server-memory-4gb/PLID29428091

 

Would these components work to store files and such? I'm thinking of getting 3 3TB harddrives, Probably better quality drives as cheapest wouldn't be a good idea for storage and backups right? Also, Could this pc host some older games so that me and my idiot friends from up the street can play quake or GTA SA against each other?

 

(Thinking: "This is my first post, hope its in the right place")

[matrix07012]

AMD isn't the best for servers, because of the higher power consumption and heat output, but since you already have the APU, than you can go for it.

Since you want to use the server as a gaming machine for guests, I suppose you want to run Windows on it.

The RAM you chose is ECC and ECC RAM is expensive. Your motherboard or your APU don't support it. You can go with normal RAM. I think only high-end AMD products support it.

The motherboard isn't really fit for a server, but for a gaming machine and a server it is fine.

[Mascheen Head]

Thanx Matrix07012! So I guess I'm building just an extra storage pc then.