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What type of server are you trying to make it into? Depending on what you want to do with it, running windows xp/7/8 might be just fine.

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What kind of server? Also what specs... not all people thinks about the same shyte when someone says old... for me old are first Pentium CPUS :|...

Geez, sandy is old for me

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You don't even need a specific server OS. As long as it provides a Service its a server. Share a Windows directory over the network... it then becomes a Simple Fileserver. Install a Linux OS of some sort and look into configuring a private Cloud or WebServer or something....

 

But yes as others have said. Your question is very broad... what do you want to do with it?

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Haha... then you don't want to know about my "rig" called Terminator xD

 

Wow... retro... what does that run like Windows 98  :D

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Heh, now's XP... It's horrible to try W7 with that iGPU...

 

I can imagine.  :wacko:

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What type of server are you trying to make it into? Depending on what you want to do with it, running windows xp/7/8 might be just fine.

Windows XP and 7 crashes more frequently then Win 8. Someone said that 8 could run for months without crashing (Standby) as XP and 7 only lasted like one week or so.

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Windows XP and 7 crashes more frequently then Win 8. Someone said that 8 could run for months without crashing (Standby) as XP and 7 only lasted like one week or so.

Um, I don't know who said that. I have definitely had a windows 7 based machine run 24/7 for about half a year, with a power supply I thought i fried years ago, a CPU that was not allowed to speed step or drop its voltages/speed at all, and a motherboard that was pencil modded. Basically, if there was ever a PC that should crash, it was that one. Windows XP on the other hand, I have never run 24/7 for that long personally, so I can't say much about it reliability wise, but windows 7 sure had no issues for me.

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Headphones/amp/dac: Schiit Bifrost Multibit - -  Schiit Lyr 3 - - Fostex TR-X00 - - Sennheiser HD 6xx

 

Homelab/Media Server: Proxmox VE host - - 512 NVMe Samsung 980 RAID Z1 for VM's/Proxmox boot - - Xeon e5 2660 V4- - Supermicro X10SRF-i - - 128 GB ECC 2133 - - 10x8TB WD Red RAID Z2 - - 2x 800 GB SAS SSD’s (1 SLOG, 1 L2Arc) - - 45 HomeLab HL15 15 Drive 4U - - Corsair RM650i - - LSI 9305-16i HBA - - TreuNAS + many other VM’s

 

Unifi UDM Pro in front of full unifi network infrastructure

 

iPhone 17 Pro - - MacBook Air M3

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That's good, I was wrong. But I would still recommend win 8 because it's a very stabile OS. I have had several problems myself with win 7 and XP and loosing data, and not any with 8, but it was probably only for me. And I think I got that information from a video presenting win 8, but it was in Swedish.

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That's good, I was wrong. But I would still recommend win 8 because it's a very stabile OS. I have had several problems myself with win 7 and XP and loosing data, and not any with 8, but it was probably only for me. And I think I got that information from a video presenting win 8, but it was in Swedish.

yes but people don't always tell you the "whole truth" especially if their trying to sell you something 

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