Originally posted here by disturb
ok i have decided to get a normal computer and turn it to a server

i have some quistions=

1.will it take up alot of energy (need to know for energy bill)
2. Will it get very hot
3.How am i going to cool it down
4. Ok i am thinking of using a rounter with it if i do that i will be shareing internet with 3 computers including the server will it slow down performance in any way for the othere computers or the internet speed



ps i have bandwith
1. Uhhh, that depends what hardware you use. It's not like a PC is going to make your bills suddenly sky rocket.

2. Maybe. Will the room it's stored in be properly cooled?

3. A random guess would be with a heat sink, a good fan, and lots more fans, or water cooling. Or you could do like they do in Main Frames.

4. Can depend on the ISP or so I'm told. And you can't expect to hook 4 machines up to your connection without t slowing down. It will slow down to ... Well, whatever load you have running on the other machines. It's not like you get more bandwidth free just because you hook up more machines. The internet speed isn't going to change. You'r WAN stays the same, but depending what the other machines do, well, if you have all 3 machines downloading movies and you want to download updates or something on the server, well, yea of course it will slow down.


RAM Matters more than processor.