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Rozaria
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I have a server computer with a supermicro x8dtl-if (dual processor) CPU. I currently have 2 Xeon E5620 on it and 16 GB of ram. It also has a NVIDIA Quadro 600-1GB on it. I scraped together this computer for a total of 40$ for fun and now I have no idea what I should do with it. I was thinking maybe I could do some CPU mining ((☞ﾟ∀ﾟ)☞ I live in university dorms and electricity is already paid for) or creating a home server to mess around with.

 

Any suggestions?

 

Specs:

Motherboard: Supermicro X8DTL-IF

CPU: Dual Intel Xeon E5620

RAM: 4x4GB 1066MHz ECC DDR3

GPU: NVIDIA Quadro 600 1 GB DDR3

Storage: 1TB HDD

 

(Note: The system does boot and already has windows 10)

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Oooohh I'm so jealous. I love server stuff and networking and all that.

 

Anyway, ideas:

  • Virtual machines to simulate or do or try whatever you want that you couldn't before
  • Home server
  • Web server
  • HTPC that could stream to whatever device you want (dont physically put it in the living room :P )
  • Don't do CPU mining
  • Get into blender and render your stuff better
  • VPN server
  • Remotely accessible server (ssh, teamviewer, vnc, lynx [<== web browsing for ssh])

and I'm sure I'll have more ideas later.

 

(I love servers)

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when you are going to mine you could get around the 350 wich isn't the best because you will be using a ton of power

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