- Oct 24, 2011
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I had been running an ubuntu server off an old homebuilt PC of mine, and it just started doing things that make me think its time to rebuild the machine. (I *think* it might be a mobo issue, but it's always been quirky with any memory I put in it. Only now, EVERY memory module I stick in it fails memtest with a suspiciously huge # of errors or else just locks up memtest.)
The key here is that I'd prefer to salvage at least the case (a nice large coolermaster), the 900w PSU that for the moment seems stable, and the 4 SATA drives (and ideally the data on the drives). (Two of those drives are using RAID 1, I am pretty sure using ubuntu's software raid, but it's been a while and now I can't recall if it was NVIDIA RAID off the mobo that set that up. I'm hoping since it was raid 1 that salvaging that would be fairly straightforward...).
So given that, what I'm looking for are suggestions on a nice, stable motherboard/cpu/memory (8-12G) combo. The mobo would ideally have integrated video. The server is mainly going to be a file server, app/web server (apache + tomcat, mysql) for pet projects, and game server (minecraft, etc.). I don't care too much about CPU - I just need it not to suck, and ideally be multi-core.
Finally, as for price range, I'm hoping to keep things in the $300 (+/-) range.
Any suggestions? Again, the keyword here is "stable", as I want maximum up-time and performance is not a priority.
Thanks in advance!
Scott
The key here is that I'd prefer to salvage at least the case (a nice large coolermaster), the 900w PSU that for the moment seems stable, and the 4 SATA drives (and ideally the data on the drives). (Two of those drives are using RAID 1, I am pretty sure using ubuntu's software raid, but it's been a while and now I can't recall if it was NVIDIA RAID off the mobo that set that up. I'm hoping since it was raid 1 that salvaging that would be fairly straightforward...).
So given that, what I'm looking for are suggestions on a nice, stable motherboard/cpu/memory (8-12G) combo. The mobo would ideally have integrated video. The server is mainly going to be a file server, app/web server (apache + tomcat, mysql) for pet projects, and game server (minecraft, etc.). I don't care too much about CPU - I just need it not to suck, and ideally be multi-core.
Finally, as for price range, I'm hoping to keep things in the $300 (+/-) range.
Any suggestions? Again, the keyword here is "stable", as I want maximum up-time and performance is not a priority.
Thanks in advance!
Scott
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