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Dear Tom's hardware,
My drafting techer has an old server cabinet with the servers he is going to throw them away I am going to take the Dell poweredge 2950 v3 with no hot swap drive bays, no CPU, and no ram I am wondering what i will need for this project
 
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One CPU choice is a pair of Xeon E5345 chips. These would be Core 2 Quad type Xeons. I've seen pairs of these go for $13 on eBay. Intel has a listing of the Clovertown Xeons here: http://ark.intel.com/products/series/30807/Intel-Xeon-Processor-5300-Series#@Server

If you find the manual for the Poweredge 2950 III then you can better figure out what it does and does not support. You'll also need some CPU coolers -- these can be a little tricky since you need to find them to fit the case. Odds are this is a 2U case so you're looking for something a bit different than a typical CPU cooler for an ATX case.

The RAM is DDR2 Fully Buffered (FB). Also very cheap on eBay.

That server originally came with SAS drives. However SAS...
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One CPU choice is a pair of Xeon E5345 chips. These would be Core 2 Quad type Xeons. I've seen pairs of these go for $13 on eBay. Intel has a listing of the Clovertown Xeons here: http://ark.intel.com/products/series/30807/Intel-Xeon-Processor-5300-Series#@Server

If you find the manual for the Poweredge 2950 III then you can better figure out what it does and does not support. You'll also need some CPU coolers -- these can be a little tricky since you need to find them to fit the case. Odds are this is a 2U case so you're looking for something a bit different than a typical CPU cooler for an ATX case.

The RAM is DDR2 Fully Buffered (FB). Also very cheap on eBay.

That server originally came with SAS drives. However SAS controllers can use SATA drives. So if you want to just put some SATA drives in it and see what happens, I'd really suggest that since this is mostly just a toy project. In fact, I'd even go so far as to say do not buy hard drives until you have a working system. You should just get a No OS installed error - at that point go ahead and throw some storage in it if you don't have any spare drives. Of course you could check out used drives on eBay. I'm not sure if by "no hot swap drive bays" you mean the case doesn't have any place for them, or if your teacher removed the bays along with the CPU and RAM so there's now a big hole in the front.
 
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