I've recently built a file server for home network. I ended up building from parts and based this on a Supermicro atom motherboard (MBD-A1SAM-2550F-O). Atom may be a bit slower than you want, but would seem to meet all of your other requirements.
- Motherboard is passively cooled, so should be able to keep this quite. - Supports VT-x - Quad core 2.4GHz (no hyper threading though) - Supports up to 64GB of ram in 4x 16GB DDR3 - Cost on motherboard with CPU is $250. Would need to add case, PS, RAM and drives. < $800 should be achievable. Michael On Sat, 04 Oct 2014 15:16:51 -0400 Henry Gessau <henry.ges...@acm.org> wrote: > I want to set up a server at home for a bunch of projects and experiments. > > I need to use Ubuntu 14.04 server for the OS, and an Intel (not AMD) CPU. > > Canonical's certified list[1] is not very helpful. I assume 14.04 will install > just fine on many systems, but I would prefer to have confirmation from > someone/somewhere before buying something. > > Requirements: > - Reasonably quiet. It's going to reside near me in my home office. > - Intel VT-x support. > - Four cores. More would be nice. > - Must support at least 32GB RAM. > - Preferably under $800 for chassis + PS + CPU. > > I assume it would need to be some Core i3/i5 variant. I don't need raw speed, > so i7 is probably overkill, and I would prefer to keep the power low. I admit > I don't understand the Xeon family at all. > > I was thinking something along the lines of an HP ProLiant MicroServer, or a > Lenovo ThinkServer TS140? But I would be happy to assemble from parts. > > Looking forward to any advice and thoughts on home server hardware. > > > [1] http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/server > _______________________________________________ > gnhlug-discuss mailing list > gnhlug-discuss@mail.gnhlug.org > http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss/
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