- Jun 27, 2008
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Hello,
I'm planing on building a small home server in the next week or so, and i need some advice on what mobo to get.
The plan is to have a computer that uses as less power as possible, but still be able to act as a home or download server.
Here's the choice of motherboards:
Gigabyte G31M-S2L
Asrock G31M-GS
I couldn't find any other is this price range (about 60$)
I'm planing on pairing it with this:
Celeron Dual Core E1200
G.SKILL Standard Series, 1GB, DDR2 800 MHz
Fortron 350W
Samsung Spinpoint F1, 8MB c. , 250GB
So my questions would be:
1.) Do i really need to have Vista x64 installed if i want to share files over LAN, because i tried combining my Vista with a friend's laptop (he has XP Pro), and we couldn't get "map network drives" to work.
2.) What motherboard do i get? Is it all the same if i get G31 or G33? - i'm not looking for performance
3.) I can't find any PSU's below 300W so i'm guessing that would be fine for this configuration?
Oh well, thanx
Tom,
I'm planing on building a small home server in the next week or so, and i need some advice on what mobo to get.
The plan is to have a computer that uses as less power as possible, but still be able to act as a home or download server.
Here's the choice of motherboards:
Gigabyte G31M-S2L
Asrock G31M-GS
I couldn't find any other is this price range (about 60$)
I'm planing on pairing it with this:
Celeron Dual Core E1200
G.SKILL Standard Series, 1GB, DDR2 800 MHz
Fortron 350W
Samsung Spinpoint F1, 8MB c. , 250GB
So my questions would be:
1.) Do i really need to have Vista x64 installed if i want to share files over LAN, because i tried combining my Vista with a friend's laptop (he has XP Pro), and we couldn't get "map network drives" to work.
2.) What motherboard do i get? Is it all the same if i get G31 or G33? - i'm not looking for performance
3.) I can't find any PSU's below 300W so i'm guessing that would be fine for this configuration?
Oh well, thanx
Tom,