Cheap server build

[connorfarkas]

I want to build a server mainly for hosting servers to play with friends (i do it on my second pc but people sometimes get mad cause i live at 2 homes at the moment and cant always let my friends continue doing stuff on the server.) and i want to have a backup thing for my father because whenever he sees me with a 1tb hard drive he jacks it and uses it to backup his pc (just lost my 2tb wd passport) so i wanted to make him a backup spot and multimedia server and also run servers (examples are minecraft, garry's mod and other games) im looking at around $1000 CAD max i have built my pc and want to build a server. Thanks in advance

 

[Damien Gates]

get yourself a xeon 1366 build
boards can be had on ebay anywhere from 50-100 us and processors.. well.. dirt cheap. I would recommend the low wattage (60w) Xeon L5640 (6 cores 12 threads) can be had from 30-40 bucks. ram for them is cheap as well. for you a 12gb kit should be fine. I think that's virtually 12-15 bucks. now I'm talking about ebay US. but I'm sure the cost is virtually the same on ebay Canada. best bang for buck build. you can spend the rest of the money on hard drives, sound card ect. just go crazy on them because I assume after cpu motherboard and ram u will have 800cad to spare if not more. I got a dual 1366 motherboard with 2 quad core 8 thread processors included for 99us and 24gb ram for 24us ecc 1333

 

[connorfarkas]

get yourself a xeon 1366 build
boards can be had on ebay anywhere from 50-100 us and processors.. well.. dirt cheap. I would recommend the low wattage (60w) Xeon L5640 (6 cores 12 threads) can be had from 30-40 bucks. ram for them is cheap as well. for you a 12gb kit should be fine. I think that's virtually 12-15 bucks. now I'm talking about ebay US. but I'm sure the cost is virtually the same on ebay Canada. best bang for buck build. you can spend the rest of the money on hard drives, sound card ect. just go crazy on them because I assume after cpu motherboard and ram u will have 800cad to spare if not more. I got a dual 1366 motherboard with 2 quad core 8 thread processors included for 99us and 24gb ram for 24us ecc 1333

I will check out these prices and get back