The RAM alone would almost $60 never mind case & the rest. 2008 runs fine on
p4 as long as. There is enough RAM at least to be a DC & file server. Non R2
should be available for MSDN download, was for me. Short of lacking RAM for
extra services my old AMD XP is doing as well as the Dell GX 260 it
replaced.
On Jan 30, 2011 4:22 PM, "Greg Sevart" <[email protected]> wrote:
> Windows Server 2008 R2 is available in x64 architecture only. Not all
> Pentium 4's supported what was then-called EM64T.
>
> Personally, I think you'd be better served by getting a low end Athlon X2,
> some cheap 7xxG board, and some DDR2. Should be able to do it all for
around
> $150, and would be infinitely superior to that old P4--and pull less
power.
>
> Anything P4 belongs in the garbage. :)
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: [email protected] [mailto:hardware-
>> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobby Heid
>> Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 5:41 PM
>> To: [email protected]
>> Subject: [H] Server question...
>>
>> Hey,
>>
>>
>>
>> After having built my daughter a new PC, I was wondering what to do with
>> the old system. The case has been junked, but most of the internals are
> still
>> around.
>>
>>
>>
>> Pentium 4 30.0GHz
>>
>> 4GB RAM
>>
>>
>>
>> I was thinking about maybe installing Windows Server 2008 R2 or Windows
>> home server (from my MSDN sub) and using it basically as a file server
for
>> backups and what not. Do you think either server system would run ok on
>> this system?
>>
>>
>>
>> If it would run either of the above two ok, do you think I could also
> throw SQL
>> 2008 R2 on there? It would have a very low load SQL access wise.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Bobby
>
>
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