mckeder

Seagate or Maxtor - both with 5 years warranty

I'm extremely excited for this one. I got up to expert but could not master it I've seen kids half my age not even wince on Six on Expert and that song is bad ass!

Ouch, a full wireless network. Thats got to suck!

Yeah, They can cause problems but only if you get crap parts that dont work well together. Most of the time I buy the higher quality parts if I can afford it. Not to worry to much. I will build the first one myself and then if it fails horribly (which I hope it does not) then I will buy one from a manufacture. I have built, I would say, well over 200 pc's/laptops since I have been doing this type of thing so the experience should help me out quite a bit. We will see though. Time will only tell. I just dont see paying so much for a system I can build exactly the same for a heck of a lot less money and (not sure about the servers) most of the time, I have better parts in them than the systems I would have bought. But oh well, we will see.

wd and seagate right now. i think i might just build my own. looking at the prices it is SOOO much cheaper. I am saving over 5g to build it myself. I can just use that extra money to buy a second PC to keep as a backup

yeah, I was looking at that. the 300gb are 7200 speed and the 146 is 10,000. I might downgrade to the 146g at 10,000 speed. I tried to find a 15,000 speed but couldn't find one. I think the w2k3 enterprise edition is the one it came with or I could sub out the fedora 7

I think it had a 3rd drive of 146gb not really sure. I will re-look. I will probably use either Fedora 7 (not sure how well its going to work as a game server) or Windows server 2003. Depends on which will work better

yes. 8k us dollars. go figure the url didn't work. I will see if I can repost it. There are a few different ones I am looking into to see if they will be worth it or not but I went with an Intel Quad Core processor with 8gb ram and raid 5 with 2 300g hdd. I think that should be good.

Well, After a long hard look, I decided it would be best to go ahead and spend about 8k on a server with all the features I wanted. Here it is http://tinyurl.com/18r

wow. I would love to have that base but just cant afford the 1.5 mil price tag on it. roflmao! but thanks for everyones response. I am checking into dell and ibm servers right now. I will let you all know which ones I choose. Thanks, Derek

That is true. Never thought of that. Can anyone recommend a nice server that isn't dell? just not a big fan of dells

I dont mind spending the money on servers. Just trying to minimalize my cost as much as possible. I was looking at building most of the stuff myself just because its cheaper by about 1k dollars but the problem I run into is the warranty. Now dont get me wrong, warranties are nice, but I cant afford to have that 2 week downtime so they can work on the pc. Just trying to get an idea of what it would cost me to build the entire thing myself. Not sure if I want to go rack mount 1u or 2u yet.

Its roughly going to depend. I'm starting my own business for gamers. The server pc's will host Counterstrike and possibly other war type games (not sure yet if i am going to do any others) and the pc's are going to run about 25 different games ranging from World of Warcraft and Guildwars to simple games like poker and pitfall

Hello everyone. I am building roughly 5 new pc's to host gaming servers in a t1 maybe even a t3 environment. The hardware I have selected so far is pretty complex and very expensive. costing me about 2700-4500 per pc. I am looking for a cheaper/alternative way of building the pc's for a gaming server without spending that much money. Any suggestions?

=(MAX(A1:B1)-MIN(A1:B1))*24 The reason for that formula is because if he puts the time in either one, excel can still figure it out. If you did A1-B1 and he put his clock in time in B1 and his end time in A1 then the formula wouldn't be the same and wouldn't give a correct amount of time.

I would personally recommend using a linux version of windows. Uses less resources and a little more stable. Not to mention its free

ah, that makes sense. Describes why I wasn't paying enough attention to find it. Thanks very much!

I am very pleased. I can browse now without loosing a year of my life I love it!

I understand there are so many different versions of linux out there. But as most of you are aware, its a great os. If we could get a Linux part on the website that would be great! Thanks, McKeder

Try =(MAX(A1:B1)-MIN(A1:B1))*24 It worked for me. Google.com search function FTW!

Yeah, It does really suck when you get to about the 50th desktop that you have built in a 2 week span. Thats the worst. Its even worse when its your 10th or 11th laptop you had to sodder the power source back onto. Thats a pain in the butt too! But the nice thing about it is, you know exactly what you did, when you did it, how you did it and with what parts you did it with. Also, who likes talking to tech support in India? I sure don't. I would rather do it myself and pay the for the parts if they go bad.

Normally I just use old cases if I have any lying around. If I do then I just buy the parts either off of ebay or the vendors website. Mostly I only build laptops for the company and personal use but once my business gets off the ground, I will build them and sell them.

Personally, I prefer to do all of my own work. Its much easier to get it done and it gets done faster and more money efficient. I build all of my own systems (including most laptops if I can get the parts) so I am fairly decent when it comes to doing things that need to be done. I almost refuse to pay someone to fix something for me that can easily (or I can learn) to fix myself. Maybe I am just stubborn though.

I guess it would really depend on what your using it for. We have computers so old that they are still dos based, We also have computers that are running Fedora Core 1 as a server. So it really depends on what you use them for.

@ICT_GUY - Thanks for the bit of code. I am not greatly familure with VB as I have just started learning it but it does help @altecsole I did try to run Virtual Desktop on a windows xp machine. I installed the windows 98 on it but it just confused our agents to the point that they had no idea what they were doing. We run a call center that has to be fully operational 24/7 without any problems. I dont think this would work for us