478 p4 media server

[Modder man]

would it be possible or feasible to use an old 3.0 ghz p4 with 2gb of ram as a home media server

 

[tonyyy]

you going to be streaming from it? or just playing movies to a tv on it?

 

[450]

Possible sure. Personally I'd move to an Atom based setup though.

 

[Modder man]

i would be sending the movies/whatever else to a htpc or other computers in the house. i already have this computer around

 

[af22]

the dual core atom will give your p4 a good run for the money.

you probably would not be able to watch 1080 content without a video card.

it should have enough power to run WHS, but handling intensive tasks will be slow.

it's also a pain to install modern day OS on the p4, i have had lots of trouble with network and video drivers.

 

[greengolftee87]

should be no problem at all. I run a P4 3.06 with 1 GB RAM running Server08. I can get about 55 MB/S network transfers and easily stream 1080p. I also torrent, http, ftp, rdp, and vpn and never have any slowdowns.

 

[Red Falcon]

the dual core atom will give your p4 a good run for the money.

you probably would not be able to watch 1080 content without a video card.

it should have enough power to run WHS, but handling intensive tasks will be slow.

it's also a pain to install modern day OS on the p4, i have had lots of trouble with network and video drivers.

He wouldn't need a video card, the P4 system would be a media server which would stream the data to another HTPC which would play the video.

OP, you should be just fine as long as you don't have a ton of connections drawing large chunks of data at once, but for one to three other systems pulling data from it, you should be just fine. Make sure you use a gigabit NIC if you are streaming multiple 1080p videos though.