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"Me and merm's new server"

Yes. Tired of having to cope with other people's crappy servers we decided to build our own. Here it is:

[URL]http://img215.echo.cx/img215/7739/ultimateserv1nb.jpg[/URL]

For those too lazy to click the Link:

2x Intel XEON Nocona EM64T 3.6GHz 800FSB 1MB Cache (Socket 604) - Retail (CP-084-IN)
£799.90
Asus NCCH-DL (Nocona) Dual Server Motherboard (MB-093-AS)
£149.95
6x Corsair 2GB DDR XMS3200C2PT TwinX (2x1GB) CAS2 (MY-079-CS)
£869.70
Matrox Millennium P750 TripleHead 64MB DDR (AGP) - Retail (GX-003-MX)
£124.95
16x Seagate Momentus 40GB 2.5" 2MB Cache HDD - OEM (HD-012-SE)
£799.20
LaCie Dupli Disc DVD121 8 x DVD±RW Dual Layer Duplicator (CD-000-LC)
£187.00
Akasa AK-171 Copper RAM Heatsinks (SY-000-AK)
£5.95
Akasa Aluminum Alloy Notebook Cooler (HS-012-AK)
£19.95
Creative Sound Blaster Audigy 2 ZS Platinum Pro 7.1 Sound Card - Retail (SC-018-CL)
£148.45
MRi 128k USB ISDN Terminal Adaptor (MD-002-MR)
£29.95
Adaptec AAR-2410SA Serial ATA RAID Controller (CC-011-AD)
£195.60
Akasa AK FC-03 Fan Controller Pro (OA-002-AK)
£24.95
Antec Minuet Piano Black/Silver Slimline Case - 220W SmartPower PSU (CA-004-AN) [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/MINUET.jpg[/URL]
£39.95
Antec TruePower 2.0 550W PSU (CA-028-AN)
£79.95
5x Sunbeam CFK08-R Cold Cathode 80mm fan - Red (FG-004-SB)
£15.80
Ideazon Zboard with Crossfire Gaming Keyset USB (KB-004-IZ)
£29.95 £29.95
Belkin Nostromo Speedpad n52 - Retail (F8GFPC100) (KB-000-BE)
£19.95 [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/belkin_nostromo_speedpad_n52.jpg[/URL]
2x Hyundai ImageQuest HQP501HR 50" Plasma (MO-031-HY)
£4,958.00 [URL]http://www.overclockers.co.uk/acatalog/Hyundai_hqp501hr.jpg[/URL]
Microsoft Windows 2003 Server Enterprise x64 Edition - OEM (SW-024-MS)
£1,541.00

Subtotal £10,040.15
VAT £1,757.03
Total £11,797.18

So there you go. Anyone got a spare 12 grand? Do you like the case? Mmmm.

I have 2 50" screens, 2 processors and 16 hard drives, so I can run Xp and 2k3 on different screens at the same time! Genius!

Mmm.. Running 2k3 64 will pretty much prevent you from running anything game wise. In fact, pretty much anything at all of any use.

Yeh, you can set up an online DVD burning service where people upload stuff and it burns it to a DVD on your server. Then they can have all their stuff on DVDs.

I wanted to get a hundred 512MB flash memory cards, but then I realised that I couldn't fit my £1500 OS on that:' {

Do you like my £150 DVD rewriter?

gerrid wrote:
> so you guys don't think this would make a good server? Not even with
> that amazing 'graphics' card, or that laptop cooler, or that amazing
> case, or those 16 laptop harddrives? Awwww.

You need a good graphics card on the server so people can play Quake III with good graphics. Plus just in case it gets hot, the laptop cooler will be fine if you put the box on top of it.

Tennis?

so you guys don't think this would make a good server? Not even with that amazing 'graphics' card, or that laptop cooler, or that amazing case, or those 16 laptop harddrives? Awwww.

Or Linux

*gets coat*

That's quite possibly the worst server configuration ever!

You've got too much RAM for the mobo.
You won't fit all that stuff in the case.
etc
etc

Are you intentionally taking the p!$$?

He's got himself a superfast 500kb/s line so he's gonna connect it to a server and allow people loads of superfast downloads.