Testing A Server Motherboard

[zaboomafia]

that is loud as freaken jet!

[wwyk1993]

No SATA??

[Maxxarcade]

@wwyk1993 It has SATA, I just wasn't using it at the time.

[wwyk1993]

@Maxxarcade Ok.

[eclenut42]

I really enjoy your videos, I'm looking to set up a servo for myself. something that will give me abt. 4tb (I have tons of music, movies and phptos). Do you have any suggestions? And what about a firewall?

[rollout1718]

im surprised the fan dont take off with the motherboard, great video dude, that cooling fan is badass!

[scooter12365]

bahh loud cpu fan

[Maxxarcade]

@Someone7089 Depends on what you are trying to do. Hard drive is not needed to test the board for basic power up, but you do need the CPU and RAM. Without RAM, it will beep an error code. Without CPU, it will not do anything except turn on the power supply and fans.

[youtubasoarus]

Damn. The thing sounds like a blowdryer! LOL. Awesome board.

[bluebutdude1]

How much for this board?

[TheGeek1028]

Mine plays fine for Athlon 64 (single core) 3200+ and a gig of RAm with a Radeon X200.

[TheGeek1028]

LOUD!!!

[Maxxarcade]

Ya that Vantec Tornado fan is nuts :-)

[ddl312]

I would love to see this in HD, I only have 2 Ghz Processor, with 728 megs of ram, Stock on board video card. Anyway, You Use linux on your servers? I used to use Ubuntu Server 8.10 or something like that, but now I just use windows xp pro. Ubuntu Keep not working and it was making me mad, I could not view movies or music, So I changed. But My file server is old, Maybe 900 Mhz at the max!

[fordbroncodave]

it does not need a fan for what you were just doing lol

[JeffN727]

The video looks great in SD, but I can't watch in HD at all. This 10 year old Dell with a 700 MHz Pentium III with 768 MB of ram is barely the minimum for any video, but it still works good.

Using a Geoforce4 MX 4000 video card.

Looking for a good deal on a better computer, but I just got laid off.

[retrochad]

That fan looks powerful! There aint enough RAM on the computers here to watch the HD playback but the still frame looks so good. I really need more sticks of RAM, only 512 meg is the max on any of the systems here.

[Maxxarcade]

You also need a good video card and processor. Probably at least a 2Ghz CPU, and a Geforce 8 or 9 series video card. What are the specs on your current system?

[retrochad]

I'm sure they're not good enough! probably 1 ghz processor and just the stock graphics card built onto the motherboard. Sometime I need to go ahead and upgrade one of these systems to something more up-to-date.

[bonecrime]

I'd say get a computer with a faster CPU. My machines with 2.4GHz and 2.6GHz dualcore AMDs handles HD video up to 720p anyway. 1080p is too tough for them though. And I don't have any gfx card that has hardware HD decoding. CPU is more important unless you're into gaming, in my oppinion. Don't know about RAM, I have 2GB in both of them.

[vwestlife]

YouTube's HD playback eats up a huge amount of processor power. It won't even play smoothly on the brand new Intel Atom "netbooks" that you see in stores for around $400. I also use a 1 GHz PIII with 512 MB RAM for most of my YouTube viewing. For HD videos, add &fmt=18 to the URL and you get mid-quality playback.

[pcgod8]

The Intel Atom is not designed for performance, but rather designed for low power consumption. So it's not surprising that any processor intensive task would be too much for it.

I can watch the HD videos just fine, but I think I'm probably borderline. I have a Pentium 4 2.8 ghz with 2 GB of RAM and an ATi Radeon 9800SE (128 MB VRAM, 350 Mhz GPU)