This is a Dell poweredge T20 intended as a server but could make a great cheap PC as Has a Haswell pentium chip, 4GB ram, 290w PSU, and a 500GB hard drive. Has pcie 3 lane so does have support for small form factor cards like the gtx 1050.
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Yea I think it's more than capable for 1080p playback and streaming, people do that on the lower spec celeron mini servers other by HP, to get around sound would probably cope with being in cabinet or cupboard as the chip won't make much heat, but servers are more than often loud.
Intel G3220 could probably playback 4K youtube videos in Windows 10 using just the Intel iGPU.
spannerzone
18 Feb 17#4
It's super cheap, stupidly cheap really. Have some heat.
coco_cool
18 Feb 17#5
How is this different from a NAS?
kotr to coco_cool
18 Feb 171#17
Have you ever tried using Google. If you can't answer your own question I'd have little hope of you ever being able to setup a server or nas
freakstyler
18 Feb 17#6
I have one of these (still in its box) ready to replace a failing desktop. I've used it, its as quiet as a normal desktop when in use. In my opinion its built more like a desktop PC rather than a server.
Gkains
18 Feb 17#7
Not just in terms of build quality but also in terms of features.
This (and the similar HP Proliant ML10 Gen9) both only come with one NIC, minimal management features* and so on. Think the HP doesn't even officially support ESXi.
*Intel AMT but AFAIK only if the CPU it was shipped with was a Xeon from the factory (no user upgrades) according to this http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/177/t/19632929
"AMT is disabled at the factory if a Pentium or Celeron processor is installed. A system board replacement is required to enable it."
EDIT Of the three cheaply available servers, the HP Microserver Gen8 has the best features with dual NIC plus the dedicated iLO NIC. Power consumption and noise of this and the HP ML10 are meant to be a better though.
sfsorrow
18 Feb 171#8
I haven't been able to get Windows 10 working on my N40L and it's horrifically slow so I might replace it with one of these?
All I do is have it hooked up to my TV as a HTPC and share files around my home network with it. Any obvious flaws? I think I've read that sound through HDMI doesn't work, but I've got a spare basic graphics card I can use.
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This (and the similar HP Proliant ML10 Gen9) both only come with one NIC, minimal management features* and so on. Think the HP doesn't even officially support ESXi.
*Intel AMT but AFAIK only if the CPU it was shipped with was a Xeon from the factory (no user upgrades) according to this
http://en.community.dell.com/support-forums/servers/f/177/t/19632929
"AMT is disabled at the factory if a Pentium or Celeron processor is installed. A system board replacement is required to enable it."
EDIT Of the three cheaply available servers, the HP Microserver Gen8 has the best features with dual NIC plus the dedicated iLO NIC. Power consumption and noise of this and the HP ML10 are meant to be a better though.
All I do is have it hooked up to my TV as a HTPC and share files around my home network with it. Any obvious flaws? I think I've read that sound through HDMI doesn't work, but I've got a spare basic graphics card I can use.