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Hey guys I was just gifted a Dell server socket 604 I was wondering what the best configuration would be like best CPU"s best ram all that 

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Really, just toss it, its slow and old and just loves power. It will be cheaper to buy a newer server due to the power savings. Your also missing on lots of cpu features in these old servers.

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No other options? Just wanting something to work on and mess around with 

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The highest cpu's it supports are two SL8ZJ/SL7ZB xeon 3.8ghz.

The highest amount of ram is 12gb of ddr2.

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It officially only supports 12GBs if I remember, but I was able to add 16GBs into mine.

Mine came with a SAS HDD controller and backplane. It would be fine to set up as a test machine, but it won't be a blazing fast system. Pentium 4 Era single core, Hyper-Threaded CPUs.


Oh. And it is loud when first booting or under load.

CPU: Core i7 4970K | MOBO: Asus Z87 Pro | RAM: 32GBs of G.Skill Ares 1866 | GPU: MSI GAMING X GTX 1070 | STOR: 2 X Crucial BX100 250GB, 2 x WD Blk 1TB (mirror),WD Blk 500GB | CASE: Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced | PSU: EVGA SUPERNOVA G2 750W | COOL: Cooler Master Hyper T4 | DISP: 21" 1080P POS | KB: MS Keyboard | MAU5: Redragon NEMEANLION | MIC: Snowball Blue | OS: Win 8.1 Pro x64, (Working on Arch for dual boot) |

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What do you guys think of a graphics card in it?? 

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16 hours ago, Redcamgray said:

What do you guys think of a graphics card in it?? 

I had a HD5450 in mine purely as a display card. No point in putting anything that is a gaming tier card in the thing. You aren't going to get any high performance out of it.

I have two PowerEdge 1800s. Previously, they were my test machines. Currently, I use their husks as a throne for my main PC. Everything they used to do, I have virtualized and run off my main PC.

 

CPU: Core i7 4970K | MOBO: Asus Z87 Pro | RAM: 32GBs of G.Skill Ares 1866 | GPU: MSI GAMING X GTX 1070 | STOR: 2 X Crucial BX100 250GB, 2 x WD Blk 1TB (mirror),WD Blk 500GB | CASE: Cooler Master HAF 932 Advanced | PSU: EVGA SUPERNOVA G2 750W | COOL: Cooler Master Hyper T4 | DISP: 21" 1080P POS | KB: MS Keyboard | MAU5: Redragon NEMEANLION | MIC: Snowball Blue | OS: Win 8.1 Pro x64, (Working on Arch for dual boot) |

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