For something that is just transferring file data, isnt even a top of the line P3 good enough? After all, the machine isn’t really doing any processing beyond finding the files and sending them, right? Or am I woefully behind the times?
I’m Asking for more than academic purposes. I have a bunch of older PC hardware, including some dual p3 mobos, p4 mobos, and so on. I would like to find some reasonable uses for them rather than add them to a landfill and thought perhaps the OP might be interested in the answer as well as it pertains to his situation.
thanks!
EDIT: just got to thinking that perhaps bandwidth would be an issue with older CPUs and mobo with a task such as a media server. Still, I think it would depend on the sort of needs you have. A regular file server or file backup should still be fine, but maybe not a media server that needs to have high data transfer speeds?
EDIT2: in regard to what orlyp said about buffering, if an e7300 wouldn’t have the speed to do video without buffering then a p3 would be totally out of the question. However, is it possible to build the system with a lot of buffering RAM? I have a few spare iRam card laying around and could probably config those into a sort of extended RAM?