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    Best [quiet] home servers for the money

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    • MattSpellerM
      MattSpeller
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      If you want quiet & server to be in the same sentence look at getting a 3/4/5U monster. They don't typically use any 40mm fans except the power supplies. This makes it cheap & easy to make them super quiet.

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      • MattSpellerM
        MattSpeller @coliver
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        @coliver said:

        I run a white box AMD server. I built it with the requirement that it had to be next to or completely silent. I generally don't mind a loud computer but this was going to be running 24x7. It was ~190$ for the processor, motherboard, RAM and case. Then probably another $150-200 for the drives

        If you want near silent, do the above.

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        • coliverC
          coliver @MattSpeller
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          @MattSpeller said:

          @coliver said:

          I run a white box AMD server. I built it with the requirement that it had to be next to or completely silent. I generally don't mind a loud computer but this was going to be running 24x7. It was ~190$ for the processor, motherboard, RAM and case. Then probably another $150-200 for the drives

          If you want near silent, do the above.

          I would probably do it again. Except I would get a motherboard and processor that supported more then 16GB of RAM. That is the only bottleneck I am running into right now.

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          • MattSpellerM
            MattSpeller @coliver
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            @coliver curse of ITX/miniATX/micro boards?

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              Jason Banned @MattSpeller
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              @MattSpeller said:

              If you want quiet & server to be in the same sentence look at getting a 3/4/5U monster.

              Also means shipping is likely more than the server is worth 😉

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              • MattSpellerM
                MattSpeller @Jason
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                @Jason Shop local 😛

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                • coliverC
                  coliver @MattSpeller
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                  @MattSpeller said:

                  @coliver curse of ITX/miniATX/micro boards?

                  Exactly.

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                    Jason Banned @MattSpeller
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                    @MattSpeller said:

                    @Jason Shop local 😛

                    For overpiced junk? okay

                    http://blacksburg.craigslist.org/sys/5231167470.html
                    http://roanoke.craigslist.org/sys/5261375008.html
                    http://winstonsalem.craigslist.org/sys/5262000390.html

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                    • MattSpellerM
                      MattSpeller @Jason
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                      @Jason Zero sympathy from me 😛

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                        Jason Banned
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                        I just decided to pickup a Dell Precision R5500 workstation computer that is Rackmount 12GB RAM $300. Might go for a second.

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                        • scottalanmillerS
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                          Not bad. What proc is in there?

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                            Jason Banned @scottalanmiller
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                            @scottalanmiller said:

                            Not bad. What proc is in there?

                            2 of these http://ark.intel.com/products/47925/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5620-12M-Cache-2_40-GHz-5_86-GTs-Intel-QPI

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                              DustinB3403 @Jason
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                              I think http://www.grcooling.com/ have the quietest servers in the world... literally no noise.

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                              • scottalanmillerS
                                scottalanmiller @Jason
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                                @Jason said:

                                @scottalanmiller said:

                                Not bad. What proc is in there?

                                2 of these http://ark.intel.com/products/47925/Intel-Xeon-Processor-E5620-12M-Cache-2_40-GHz-5_86-GTs-Intel-QPI

                                Pretty nice, that is a lot of horsepower.

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                                  Jason Banned @DustinB3403
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                                  @DustinB3403 said:

                                  I think http://www.grcooling.com/ have the quietest servers in the world... literally no noise.

                                  I have a large data center at work, I don't need another one to have to manage at home lol.

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