- Jul 28, 2021
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This is the board. I was wondering what cooler I could use to cool this. Preferably the cheapest option out there. It looks like an intel style cooler will cool it but I am wondering about clearance being that it holds a Ryzen 1600. Please help! Story below.
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05634309
So here is the story. I found this in an old box at a friends house. It doesn't look damaged or in any rough shape and still has the stock cpu in it so pins should be perfect. I want to get this running as a Linux machine so I can mess around with it. I don't want to have this thing just go to waste and (I know dumb idea) but I want to start messing around with getting it running as a 24/7 home server and experiment with that. I'm currently studying network engineering and I am having fun building servers and playing around with kali and redhat on vmware but I want to dive deeper into the server side of things and see what I can learn from it. I personally think having something cheap like this that can be a throwaway or an upgrade path to something later can help me out and not run my main pc 24/7. So far we have played with windows server 2016 but I want to try learning how to build a server on linux. I was going to get a raspberry pi 4 to play on linux with but then I found this and well its x86 and virtual box will run on it and other programs I might need in the future compared to the arm architecture right now. Plus it comes with 8gbs of ram so all I can think that it would need is a hard drive and a power supply. Feel free to comment on the story or my plans! Maybe you have a better idea or something that I haven't thought of yet. Just keep in mind that I am trying to stay under $150 in spending on this or a "new server toy"
Thank you for your help!!
https://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c05634309
So here is the story. I found this in an old box at a friends house. It doesn't look damaged or in any rough shape and still has the stock cpu in it so pins should be perfect. I want to get this running as a Linux machine so I can mess around with it. I don't want to have this thing just go to waste and (I know dumb idea) but I want to start messing around with getting it running as a 24/7 home server and experiment with that. I'm currently studying network engineering and I am having fun building servers and playing around with kali and redhat on vmware but I want to dive deeper into the server side of things and see what I can learn from it. I personally think having something cheap like this that can be a throwaway or an upgrade path to something later can help me out and not run my main pc 24/7. So far we have played with windows server 2016 but I want to try learning how to build a server on linux. I was going to get a raspberry pi 4 to play on linux with but then I found this and well its x86 and virtual box will run on it and other programs I might need in the future compared to the arm architecture right now. Plus it comes with 8gbs of ram so all I can think that it would need is a hard drive and a power supply. Feel free to comment on the story or my plans! Maybe you have a better idea or something that I haven't thought of yet. Just keep in mind that I am trying to stay under $150 in spending on this or a "new server toy"
Thank you for your help!!
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