My work, media, or primary PC...input needed

[h4vvok]

2 Athlon MP 1800 MP Processors (Liquid Cooled)
1 ASUS A7M266-D Motherboard
4 Sticks of 512 MB Crucial CL 2.5 PC 2100 Ram
ATI AIW Radeon 9600XT (Liquid Cooled)
2 SATA 36.7GB Raptors in RAID 0 (Liquid Cooled.cant be too cool )
CD-RW Drive (forget speed)

...How does this sound as a "server"...I might use as a server or a media PC, or possibly my primary PC since I am doing more and more work nowadays...just want some input, especially from Asus

 

[Asus]

It would be great as a server. A group of buddies of mine own a server which used to consist of 2 Athlon MP 2000 CPUs, SCSI drives and Tyan Thunder board and it ran a number of CS, DoD and NS servers flawlessly without lag. Of course it was on a very speedy line as well.

Personally, I'd use it as a primary/media PC. All for yourself.

I'm getting back into Audio/Video capture and editing myself. CD/DVD Authoring.

Have something more specific you wanted comments on?

 

[h4vvok]

Not really, was just thinking about using it instead of my main PC...just bought the board and CPUs for under 200$ (with 1GB ram)...would be good to make a server with it but also would be an awesome media PC. Decisions decisions...my current main PC (that sucks compared to my work PC from Falcon Northwest) is this:

Chaintech 9JCS Zenith Mobo
Intel P4 2.4Ghz 533mhz FSB
1GB PC2700 DDR Ram
2 80GB Seagate Barracudas in Raid 0 (at 45$ a piece on sale, who could resist)
1 60GB Maxtor HD (8mb Cache, 7200 RPM, my backup/video disk)
BFG Asylum 5700 FX Ultra 128MB card
HP 200i DVD/CD burner (holy crap this is fast for a HP burner)
Soundblaster Live! 5.1 Channel Soundcard (if I can hear it then the sound quality is good )
...I think it would perform better in games than the Dual Athlon MP, but would like your opinion Asus

 

[h4vvok]

Also, what do you know about IDE RAID....been meaning to buy a couple cheap IDE drives and a controller card(if I need one, not familiar with IDE raid)....want to experiment with IDE drives, see how they perform in a raid array

 

[h4vvok]

Bump...Asus got too excited over the new Nforce4 I bet

 

[Asus]

Ha
The difference between those two systems would be a lot bigger if you had the P4 2.4GHz 800FSB CPU.
I'd try it out. If you run a lot of applications in the background and want to start working with media applications then you just might perfer the Dual CPU rig. Otherwise the 2.4GHz CPU will do better in single applications.

Are you thinking about grabbing a PCI RAID controller or using one onboard?

 

[h4vvok]

I grabbed a PCI raid controller off ebay for $15, supports RAID 0, 1, and 0+1

 

[h4vvok]

I'm just not sure how to configure a RAID array on IDE heh