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i need a simple computer to be used as a server.



What are you planning on serving? Web content? Home media server? Asterisk VoIP? SAMBA / Windows-style file sharing? Tell us some more about the planned usage (and number of users), and maybe I can make some recommendations.

These guys currently have refurbished 1u rackmountable HP DL360 (G3) servers on sale for only $19.99 -- dual 2.8GHz Xeon CPUs, 1GB ECC RAM, onboard RAID. Not sure if it is on the website itself -- they sent an email blast yesterday. You add disks (and more RAM, if you like) separately. Those are enterprise grade machines (or as close as HP gets anymore), not some clone gear in a tower with a Deer power supply; deployed several myself over the past few years, and have been happy with the results. Shipping would be extra. Call them on the phone and ask for sales -- their email has been being bombarded because of the sale. A machine like that is more than capable of serving almost anything you can throw at it; they are only two or three years old.