Unios Posted January 29, 2013 Share Posted January 29, 2013 I'm thinking about building a desktop, a test server for practice in the future. I'll be using window server 2008. On a side note i'm majoring in network administrator. So what is a good standard, spec wise, should this desktop be? I'm not thinking of making anything super and I have some parts that is available to use; I have 500 watt power supply, 80gb & 30gb hdd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Founder Michael Posted January 29, 2013 Founder Share Posted January 29, 2013 What do you mean by test server for practice. Give us some more info or a general idea of what tasks do you expect it to perform. Is video performance required (gaming or computational purposes)? What is your budget? Sky is the limit here, that's why I am asking those questions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unios Posted January 29, 2013 Author Share Posted January 29, 2013 Basicly just to run a server, pen test for security, and maybe run a web server. Just some basic network admin things. Budgeting would be around $500's and well I guess I can also attempt to run a basic private game server. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Darken_Shadow Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 I would suggest a basic machine which can run multiple virtual machines. Any quad core i5 (Sandy or Ivy) which is not a K (perhaps i5-2500). You do not need to OC and you want the better virturalization support. Throw in a motherboard (perhaps Z77) and use the iGP of the CPU to drive your displays. This should run you $250 or less. Throw in a case, a 8GB kit of RAM (whichever is onsale), and a OS, Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unios Posted February 11, 2013 Author Share Posted February 11, 2013 Also I can get most window OS for free so that is a minus on price. Server, Windows, etc. The above ^ sounds like it'll be pretty sturdy though with recent price for i5 is around $150-200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nufan2222 Posted April 17, 2013 Share Posted April 17, 2013 go with a i5 and get some ssd Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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