epox kp-6 ls & 2x300MHZ/512 cache PII's

[SpyderMatrix]

would this be a good setup here are full specs


2x 300Mhz 512 Cache SECC PII Chips
EPoX KP6-LS board
256 Mb PC-66 memory
HDD unconfirmed size havent bought
32x CD ROM
basic keyboard and mouse
custom case


basically file server and mp3 station and divx station

[cmcquistion]

Are you going to buy this stuff, or do you already have it?

How good it will be largely depends on what you're spending;)

If it's free, it will be great. If you're spending money, I would be curious how much you're spending and if you could get something faster (even a single-CPU system) for the same amount of money.

[SpyderMatrix]

well the cpus are free as they are working pulls from Government computers i.e Coast Guard logistics. the board was bought for 28.00 shipped off Ebay. memory was free too most of the other stuff is just parts had laying around.

[Cjwinnit]

*checks profile*.

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=215817

Originally posted by SpyderMatrix
like stated this server is going to be used for the following configuration

Files/MP3/DIVX/DVD's

i need to know whether to use Linux or Windows and which version

thinking 2k or winxp pro

or

Red hat or mandrake

my specs

2xPentium II 300Mhz slot 1 secc@ 66FSB
IBM dual board with onboard sound, ata, lan, scsci, agp, pci,isa pc66,100
2x128 meg PC-66 ECC memory
32 or 64 meg video card
some ata hardrives some scsci drives later
ata dvd rom
ata zip drive or tape drive

As you are considering using it as a file server I wonder what you are going to use as storage. 5 to 10 gig cheapo Scuzzy OS disk then a large ATA RAID array?

[SpyderMatrix]

i have a few 40 gig HDD's that im going to use and a 20gig hard drive for the o/s basically it will look like this

1x20gig hdd = O/S
1x40gig hdd = MP3's
1x40gig hdd = Divx's
1x40gig hdd = kazaa and other program stuff
1x40gig hdd = image server for modding projects and other stuff

[cmcquistion]

Originally posted by SpyderMatrix
well the cpus are free as they are working pulls from Government computers i.e Coast Guard logistics. the board was bought for 28.00 shipped off Ebay. memory was free too most of the other stuff is just parts had laying around.

The system will probably be fine for file-serving and MP3's. I don't have any experience with DivX, so I can't comment on that.

I've got a dual PII 350 system that I still use as a Backup File Server and it works fine. It used to put my 1.5 GHz P4 File Server to shame;) The single CPU P4 wasn't as smooth at multitasking. I pawned it off to someone else and built a dual AMD system for my Primary File Server and I'm lovin' it.

[Cjwinnit]

As a rough guess you need 600Mhz to play a full-motion DivX without frame losses. As it's a dually (300) I doubt it will be able to play DivX movies unless you get a multi-threaded program to play one. So in this case it's relegated to file server.

However, having KaZaA on a dually is a good plan. The proggy's a known rescource hog and it will cut it down to size :)

Remember to get Kazaa Lite from www.k-lite.tk rather than plain Kazaa.

As a sidenote you have two EEC ramsticks. Handy if you decide to get a very good RAID card that needs a stick as you can pop that in.

[Rav]

I had a slot Athlon 700Mhz that had problems with high quality Divx getting choppy. I don't know if divx is multi-threaded for playback, although I know it is for encoding.

-Rav

[Cjwinnit]

Originally posted by Rav
I had a slot Athlon 700Mhz that had problems with high quality Divx getting choppy.

MY Celly 500 was a bugger for DivX's. Took aaages to encode. In a way it's a good thing I electrocuted it, gave me an excuse to get a P4 :D

[SpyderMatrix]

checking into it now

[SpyderMatrix]

well i cant even get the dang thing to boot up no video dont understand this setup right doesnt even work in single cpu mode for either of them the board is brand new is there something special i have to do to get these to work in the system

[Audioaficionado]

Is it posting?

If not, maybe it's the CMOS battery.

Is the CMOS discharge jumper in the run position?

[SpyderMatrix]

the cmos battery is in the run position i will change batteries in the morning and will update you afterwards