22-10-2014, 06:49 PM
(22-10-2014, 01:38 PM)silverzx Wrote:(22-10-2014, 01:18 PM)SRowell Wrote: havent really been paying much attention to the coin mining scene but as far as i was aware it was difficult to make any money at home as most machines cost too much to power compared to what they can actually mine.
Who said anything about making money?I was just saying it could mine ALT COINS if it wasn't doing anything else.
(22-10-2014, 01:32 PM)procta Wrote: if its just for a home use, then id just use the p4 and beef up the ram and HDDs, and bung what ever os you want on it with the programs of your choice.
what I did for my Microsoft shit, was build a Server with a basic motherboard and a graphics card, bit of ram, so it would run 2k3, bought a raid card for my 4 hdds and bunged into a full blown server ATX tower.
Ran spot on,
Ran like a beut' did she! What was yours used for?
my server was used for various roles, as I was doing windows xp and 2003 mcps at the time,
I set it up for file sharing, print sharing, active directory (domain controller) and also as a DNS server too. so it had a fare few services running, I even had the remote terminal services running too, as I had to use that for a few labs,
I had a the raid set for spanned, I used the hardware raid card for that too.
she ran for hours with my two workstations, i used to use the server to install windows over the network. So she did her job really, really well!
A fantastic system she was! My dad thought it was a right cracker!
just powered her up, logged on, and locked the system.
She ran windows 2003 enterprise server, her hardware wasn't all that hardcore tbh, a 30 quid mother board that took a P4 processor, and 256mb of ram at the time, with two 30 gig drives, and 4 odd ball sized drives for the spanned raid, two cd roms, one a burner for practice back up. i think i even left the floppy drive in just for the crack! Done the job tbh,