PC-Server configuration/Emule 24/7

Yorus

In the case of a motherboard with an Intel Atom, I would go for one with a slightly more modern chipset. The 945 is said to be terrible in terms of power consumption and significantly penalizes the overall power consumption of the motherboard. In fact, I believe that in the Asrock, what has the fan is not the micro, it's the chipset.

I think this one is better, within the same brand, although it is a bit more expensive. There are other Intel options but they use SO-DIMM memory:

http://www.alternate.es/html/product/Placas_base_CPU_integrada/ASRock/AD525PV3_ATOM_D525/565037/?tn=HARDWARE&l1=Placas+base&l2=Intel&l3=CPU+integrada

I was trying to look at APP, but I don't know what's wrong with the website that the Intel motherboard section appears empty to me.

Bm4n

I'm not trying to predict the future Cobito, I'm just weighing the pros and cons, putting the prices against the options that one and the other system will give you. Anyone who has worked with an Atom knows its limitations, it's just enough to run emule, but you have to think that it's a less powerful processor than the P4 it has and that for anything extra you ask of it it will very likely fall short. And I say this with knowledge of the matter, I've also had a P4 and I have an Atom netbook that I tried to use as a video server for the PS3 and it didn't work.

I always think about it as if it were for me, and I would take advantage of having a dedicated PC as a server for: emule, data, printing, remote desktop, video streaming, etc. And I know that for the price difference a low-voltage Sandy would be the best option and it will take much longer to become "obsolete". In the case of Crashon he will have to know what he values more and decide.

CRASHON

Well well, not even in my wildest dreams did I imagine questioning 3 veterans, thanks to all of you really.

Obviously we can't read the future, but it's true that we need to have a bit of foresight regarding future use, although I am clear that if what I want is to adjust electricity consumption I can't expect to get apples from an oak tree.

Right now the server is running with a bare XP and only emule, the PS3 media server, from which at the moment I stream series and movies in DVD format (4.5 Gb) and on rare occasions high definition series, I must say that right now with the P4 I have no problems with streaming, maybe a little at the beginning of DVD movies, but within a few seconds it's fine. I also have a Samsung program activated for streaming to the galaxy s (allshare), but it's occasional use. I mean 24 hours of emule and PS3 media server. To control it remotely from various devices I use VNC Server, so this program is also in use.

The initial intention was to use current components to reduce the investment a bit (cases, power supply, memory, etc...), but if you see that for a little more it's worth investing a bit more to improve performance, then I would clearly take that into account.

In one of the posts I referred to heat dissipation, this is because the server is in a closed cabinet and when the outside temperature is high (which is almost not the case now) things get serious, so we could also consider that the atom or sandy processor is as cool as possible.

incrediboy

why do you have the computer in a cupboard with no ventilation? of course the pc doesn't like that at all, and if it's because of noise issues, it's not very difficult to make a pc that makes absolutely no noise.

CRASHON