(This is visible in the eBay images above.) But since my server just sits inside a cabinet by itself, putting it into a rack isn’t why I care about it’s height. Therefore, my 4U server is 4x taller than the 1U server I had and takes up 4 “unit slots” in a server rack. Remember when I said servers are long, wide, and flat so they can stack in a rack? The “1U” and “4U” in those server names I mentioned means the 1U server is “1 Unit” tall. I’ve heard some people just stick their 1U server under a bed or couch as a sound reducer and put some pantyhose over the front to stop it from sucking up dust. Or use a vented/cooled sound-reducing box made to put it inside of. If you get a 1U server, prepare to deal with sound by putting it in a spare room/garage/closet. It’s about like having a couple hair dryers on medium-heat setting inside a metal box. Most 1U servers have 6 to 12 1.75″ (40mm) barrel fans that spin around 30k RPM. Which would you rather have? New and crappy, or slightly-aged and still awesome? However, there is one down-side to owning your very own rack server… The Noise! High-End corporate hardware made to work well and last for a long time. When you buy a used server that is only outdated by a few years, you are buying technology that was cutting-edge at the time of its manufacturing. Outdated hardware made cheap at the end of it’s time won’t make the most stable machine. ($40 case, $60 motherboard, $60 ram, $75 CPU, $25 HDD, $50 Power Supply.) But you will be buying old and inferior hardware already outdated at the time of it’s making. You could probably build a real crap-fest 16GB RAM desktop with a crap parts for around $300+. Sure, with a bit of computer know-how and newegg you could build a decent economy 16gb RAM desktop for $400+. And some servers even have 2+ power supplies so if one fails there is a backup to keep it running! These reasons make a used server a far better choice than a desktop when it comes to running Bots for Evony. Some servers use RAID to split HDD load onto many hard drive disks for better performance. Servers often take 2 or more CPUs, each CPU has it’s own sets of registered RAM. Why? Because servers are run 24/7 and need to be stable. A server will also be more stable while doing it. I guarantee that a 2-3 year old server will out-perform and out-last a desktop with the same specs. □Ĭurrently at an 8-core laptop with 16gb RAM costs about $900+, and an 8-core desktop with 16gb RAM costs about $600+. and serving a private-game-server for another game called Conquer Online. But I spotted a 8x Quad-Core 128GB RAM Sun Microsystems x4600 M2 going for $700 and I snatched that up quick! The x4600 m2 is pushing 700+ bots along with running NEATO. I could have upgraded the r905 to 4x Hex-Cores and 256GB RAM had I wanted to. The next server I bought was a 4U 4x Quad-Core 64GB RAM Dell PowerEdge r905 for $350, it pushed 500+ bots easy. I sold that server on craigslist 2 years later for $450, almost double what I paid. Later on I bought 2x AMD Quad-Core CPUs for $40 along with 32GB RAM for $100 to max out the sc1435’s specs for $240 total. ![]() The first server I bought 6 years ago was a 1U 2x Dual-Core 8GB RAM Dell PowerEdge sc1435 for $100. This is good news for botters and other people that need high CPU power and RAM for the least amount of money! ![]() This is so that many of them can stack on top of each other in a rack or case. Servers are usually wider, flatter, and longer than a desktop computer. They also have Ethernet ports, and a few USB ports just like a regular computer. They have connection hook-ups for a mouse, keyboard and monitor. They are also shaped different than desktop computers. But, servers generally have much better CPU/RAM capabilities than a desktop computer. Data-centers then have to liquidate their old hardware in the next best way – eBay and Amazon! But what is a Server, you wonder?Ī Server is just a powerful computer that doesn’t have great audio/video capabilities when compared to a desktop computer. Some times the data-centers will give their servers back as part of a trade-in. Every few years, big corporate data-centers have to upgrade a lot of their hardware.
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