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fuck off cunt

Energy is the number #1 cash grave.
People who buy cheap inefficient shit always end up paying more.

>>61003256
>college
>300 watts at idle.

What's the problem? If you are in a dorm its free power, within reason of course. That is, until you trip the breaker or turn your room into a sauna.

More than 1 of those might heat up a dorm pretty quickly.

>>61003275

Would would you recommend then? I was thinking an alternative would be a cheap i7 desktop that can be found for around the same price. But the downside to that is it won't have much RAM, and I'd have to throw some more at it. Which wouldn't be too expensive though.

>>61003317

I'm starting as a sophomore and living in a 4 bedroom apartment off campus. Water is free, but electricity is not.

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>>61003256
>>61003322
I got a dual xeon, 48 GB RAM server off ebay for 100 dollars (+40 shipping). It's about 140 watts idle, maybe 180 if I'm stressing it a little. You'll be able to set up as much shit as you want on one of those, and the 140-160 watts is going to be better than trying to mash 5 desktops together.

>>61003344

Thank you for your two cents. I would assume your server is probably a bit newer than the one in the OP picture which is why it's more energy efficient.

At this point, I'm thinking it's either find a good deal on a dual xeon server with a bunch of ram installed, or find an i7 desktop for around the same price and throw some more RAM at it.

>>61003256
>>I'd only be using it when i'm practicing on the VM's, which isn't all the time.
How many of these do you need to run at once? You don't need some firebreathing server if you're just occasionally spinning up a few VMs to play with.

>>61003330
get a job you lazy faggot

>>61003372
>newer
I don't know, it's old as shit. Fujitsu RX200 or something or other. I'm planning on buying an HP Gen10 Microserver when they finally fucking exist (fuck you HP) to replace it and I'll be measuring the power usage when idle and under load. Only issue is I'll be losing 16 gigs of RAM so I'll need to either decommission some of the virtual machines or see what I can squish down.

>>61003375

Option 1: Host the vulnerable VM and Kali Linux in a VM on the server at the same time.

Option 2: Host just the vulnerable VM on the server and put Kali Linux on a HDD on my current rig (FX8350 @ 4.5ghz, ect) and attack the server from my rig.


>>61003378
kek

>>61003408
>HP Microserver

I had to look it up, but I really like the form factor on those. Would be ideal for me too I think.

>>61003410
You have enough cores to run both VMs at once on your machine, even while you continue to use it for normal shit. How much RAM do you have? 8GB might be kinda tight but you'll be fine doing all this on your existing hardware with 16.

Now if you just *want* a server because you have other ideas on the boil for things to do with a separate computer, don't let me stop you. But just to set up a play network with a few hosts and then attack it, you have what you need now.

>>61003425
I want to buy it, but they don't even offer them yet. I think to even see configuration options you need to have a business and set up a B2B account with them too. Supposedly they were "released" a little while back, but nothing has them. The vendors that my work uses don't even have them listed.

>>61003440

I was just thinking it would be nice to separate all this from my gaming rig. I have 16 gigs of low frequency (937mhz) DDR3 on it right now.

I may just heed your advice and just stick with what I have now then. I do really appreciate your post.

remember most rack servers are loud as fuck (if you've never heard one then whatever you are currently thinking is loud - double it) which may be prohibitive in a shared household

>>61003483
That. Make sure you go for a 2U instead of a 1U if you can. The 1U servers are loud as fuck. I have mine in a closet and it still ups the ambient noise to a good 45-50 dB.