Hello Sean!

30 Jul 23 13:42, you wrote to me:

 SD> -=> Sean Rima wrote to Sean Dennis <=-

 SR>> i will more than likely end up with more lol

 SD> I had like 10 computers in the apartment and gave away 3.  I am
 SD> working on setting up a small Dell Optiplex 7010 (i5, 8GB RAM) and
 SD> giving my mom, this dell Optiplex 7040 I paid $600 for (i7, 32GB RAM).
 SD> I need a better computer to stream with so the 7040 is overkill for
 SD> what I need.  The 7010 is a USFF system and will give me a lot more
 SD> space once it's gone near my desk.

 SD> When I can purchase a PFSense appliance I can get rid of this i5 I'm
 SD> using for a firewall as it's large and really overkill for what it
 SD> does.

 SD> I might put the BBS on it eventually.  It's a Broadcom onboard NIC
 SD> that is crap but I put an Intel PRO/1000 PCIe card in it and that
 SD> would be just fine.  I like to keep the OS and BBS separated
 SD> physically on different drives.

I ended up at one stage with a blade server, that was interesting and deafening
to watch  I am trying to settle on a single make sff pc for all. The dell
FX160 are ok but under powered and hard to find.

Looking around at an ASUS sff pc but they are not cheap

Sean


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