Re: [H] Old Asus p2bd - should/could I use it?

[Winterlight]

Remember that while you will be able to spread the CPU load, no single process will go faster then your CPU speed = 800. I have done video with these kinds of speeds, and lower, but you really need a PIII or Cel 1GB or above for acceptable recording, basic editing and simple encoding, which will take you around 4-6+  hours per hour of video. 800 is going to be right at the bottom edge of acceptability. Lite On recommends a minimum of a PIII 800 for their DVD burners, so that should tell you something.

However, as a media play black device, capturing, and editing audio, file server, fax server, this sort of thing, it would work great.

At 11:00 AM 4/14/2005, you wrote:

I found an old Asus 2B-D with 2 300 mhz Celerons in it.
If I can find a pair of PIII 750�s or 800�s would this thing be worthwhile as a household server?
It does have nearly 600 mg of ram on it. 256  + 128 + 128 + 64
Good enough to make into a multimedia server for the home network by putting a TV card in it and installing Media Center 2005 on it? Recording TV Shows etc?
Guess I could stick a modem in it for network faxing too?
I was going to pick up an AMD64 system for the above but was thinking with the dual processors maybe it might not be too bad.
What does the collective think