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In Reply to: Re: Is this a worthwhile starting point??? posted by xmasparty@mac.com on April 4, 2006 at 13:11:11:
Probably not gonna be great as a music server, but it can be done. It will cost you a few bucks, at the very least you will need a USB 2.0 card($50) and a new hard drive for storage($150). And you will probably want to get a Sata interface so you can use the newer and faster hard drives. And most likely your cd-rom drive is going to need to be upgraded so that ripping your music is reasonably fast, although with such an old machine a fast drive isnt going to be of much help as the cpu and memory will be your biggest bottleneck. As you can see it will start to get pretty expensive even if you can do the upgrades yourself your talking $200 minimum in parts alone. All that being said you could get by with what you have and just add a usb hard drive for storage, but ripping ur music is going to be painfully slow, I know from expereince, I was going to use my old P3 800mhz system for a music server and it was sloooow, its not really the cpu thats the problem its the slow disk drives in the older machines.I attached a link to this page, you could buy that motherboard/cpu/memory combo for $119 add a 250gig hard drive(on sale for $79 on the same website), keep your current case, cd rom and use ur current hard drive just to run windows from and for $200 u could have a system that will blow away your old 450mhz system for about what it will costy u to update it.
- http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=1778746&Sku=MCM-GVHZL-345 (Open in New Window)
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