Best [quiet] home servers for the money

[MattSpeller]

@coliver curse of ITX/miniATX/micro boards?

[Jason]

@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

[MattSpeller]

@Jason Shop local

[coliver]

@MattSpeller said:

@coliver curse of ITX/miniATX/micro boards?

Exactly.

[Jason]

@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

[MattSpeller]

@Jason Zero sympathy from me

[Jason]

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

[scottalanmiller]

Not bad. What proc is in there?

[Jason]

@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

[DustinB3403]

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

[scottalanmiller]

@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.

[Jason]

@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.