The second server i recived i used to replicate the 1st but to serve as a home web host/ private wow-server and to extend my media capabilities!
So i was fortunate enough to be given a 2nd Dell™ PowerEdge™ 2850 for free :)
so i was left with a bear server 2x 2.8ghz xeon cpu's 3 36gb hdd's in raid 0 config, and 8gb ddr2 ram. no os, so i set to work 1st i went through various linux distributions, and diffrent versions of windows from xp and even windows 8 consumer preview, finally i settled on windows 7 64bit ultimate.. ok i know what your thinking :O why well simple my houshould runs 3 xbox's 2 ps3's several laptops an everyday pc and my gameing rig , 2 ipads and variuos other wifi enabled devices which i wanted to seemlesly intergrate ok i know linux dists that can be trained to this but windows for me works well...
so i set about getting everything upto date, and fine tuned the 2x gbe ethernet cards i even opened up the parked cpu's to in theroery make the to XEON'S run 4 cores each all though i believe these are like threads rather than cores ok enough of that so at this point i have a very well tuned windows 7 64 that runs superb especialy after i installed a 2nd ASUS HD6770 gfx card after moding the x4 pci-e slot (pics to follow with a small tutorial, google is actualy your friend this mod isn't hard but can be problematic if you mess it up). so installed my private wow server for close friends and realitves i was maybe planning on opening it to a small public base but opted against this atm.
entry level gfx it maybe but why waste £££'s on an expensive card when the system sits in the rack with the 1st 1 i recived, allthough i do occasional run games on them whilst im upgradeing 1 or doping an anual backup whilst im sat in the room anyway after all i got all them horse's its hard not too resist trying out games/encoders/folding etc.. and im impressed with the results! i will update this meaningless article once i have finnished setting upo this particular server, and put a list of things i've done with a few links and tutorials on the way, if any of this ounds remotly intresting to you, please feel free to visit any of my adds to show support for this site, if you have any ideas or better use's for these servers contact me with your input, output or through put lol and i'll be more than happy to respond to any questions you may have.....
Contact,
[email protected]
coming soon world of warcraft and other mmorpgs private server's and how to's!
so i was left with a bear server 2x 2.8ghz xeon cpu's 3 36gb hdd's in raid 0 config, and 8gb ddr2 ram. no os, so i set to work 1st i went through various linux distributions, and diffrent versions of windows from xp and even windows 8 consumer preview, finally i settled on windows 7 64bit ultimate.. ok i know what your thinking :O why well simple my houshould runs 3 xbox's 2 ps3's several laptops an everyday pc and my gameing rig , 2 ipads and variuos other wifi enabled devices which i wanted to seemlesly intergrate ok i know linux dists that can be trained to this but windows for me works well...
so i set about getting everything upto date, and fine tuned the 2x gbe ethernet cards i even opened up the parked cpu's to in theroery make the to XEON'S run 4 cores each all though i believe these are like threads rather than cores ok enough of that so at this point i have a very well tuned windows 7 64 that runs superb especialy after i installed a 2nd ASUS HD6770 gfx card after moding the x4 pci-e slot (pics to follow with a small tutorial, google is actualy your friend this mod isn't hard but can be problematic if you mess it up). so installed my private wow server for close friends and realitves i was maybe planning on opening it to a small public base but opted against this atm.
entry level gfx it maybe but why waste £££'s on an expensive card when the system sits in the rack with the 1st 1 i recived, allthough i do occasional run games on them whilst im upgradeing 1 or doping an anual backup whilst im sat in the room anyway after all i got all them horse's its hard not too resist trying out games/encoders/folding etc.. and im impressed with the results! i will update this meaningless article once i have finnished setting upo this particular server, and put a list of things i've done with a few links and tutorials on the way, if any of this ounds remotly intresting to you, please feel free to visit any of my adds to show support for this site, if you have any ideas or better use's for these servers contact me with your input, output or through put lol and i'll be more than happy to respond to any questions you may have.....
Contact,
[email protected]
coming soon world of warcraft and other mmorpgs private server's and how to's!