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greengolftee87

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My fileserver is dying a slow death right now. frequent BSODs, becoming completely unresponsive and randomly restarting. So far I have hammered the memory with memtest86 for 24 hours and reinstalled server08. Network transfers are very odd, sustained speeds will be normal then ram usage will drop to 0 and network traffic will stop, then resume, this just cycles like that until the transfer is complete. I have included a pic because its hard to describe.

PIC

So if no one has any ideas of what else might be going wrong I think its time to replace the Motherboard/CPU

Current Specs
P4 2.8 Ghz
1 Gig RAM
OS: server 08
OS drive 250 Gig PATA
Sata controller: Supermicro PCIx64 8 port
Storage Drives:: 7 assorted SATA drives no RAID
Case: NORCO RPC-470

This acts as my file/media server, FTP, HTTP/S, backup destination

I was thinking of replacing with this
motherboard
CPU

As always I'm trying to keep this as cheap as possible because this was not a planned upgrade, shit just broke. Ill probably get the processor from a local microcenter because their in-store CPU prices are really low.

My plans would be to reuse the supermicro card and all the hard drives. Also since thats a 64-bit CPU i could upgrade to 08 R2 which i hear is very good. For those of you with it, how is virtualization? Id like to run Untangle as a vm and pass 2 physical NICs to it
 
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I would skip the socket 775 and get an i3 or AM3 system for about the same cost.
 
For best cost/performance, I'd get a cheap dual-core AM3-socket CPU. They perform quite well, generally use very little power, and are very affordable. You can't really go wrong.
 
I would still recommend an i3 system. For about $25 to $50 more you get a heck of a lot of more performance being that i3 has a > 20% advantage in per core IPC.
 
AMD quad cores are under hundred bucks plus many mobos accept ECC ram

Intel route means Xeon for ECC
 
I now after years of using REG/ECC ram (home and work) believe it is totally unnecessary. It does protect against ram going bad but I as a network admin for over 15 years have maybe seen 1 time out of hundreds of systems where working ram has gone bad. It usually either works or does not from the start. I have had systems with REG/ECC have bad ram and sometimes it will let you run with the bad ram (errors will show up in the motherboard event log) but most of the time the system will crash anyways because the error will be more than a correctable error.
 
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