rbonon Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Hello, I would like to have your recommendations on motherboard/cpu for building a low-power/silent (most important requirement) server that would run Snow Leopard, and possibly Lion as vanilla as possible. The server will be primarily serving files (8Tb currently) and directory services for 2 Macbook Pros and 1 Hackintosh, plus 2 XBMC Linux boxes (so I need to run AFP and NFS). Must be silent/very quiet, thus being low power is a requirement. I current run a Ubuntu server that is a very low-power and quiet machine, running fanless on the following pieces of hardware. Gigabyte GA-MA74GM-S2H/µATX AMD SEMPRON LE-1250 2.2GHZ Corsair 2GB-800 Twin2X1Gb PC6400 Noctua NH-U12P heatsin I suppose it is not easy to install OS X vanilla on such a hardware, therefore I am intending to buy new mobo/cpu and reuse the rest (HDs, case, etc). Ideally, but not mandatory, a LGA775 would be best in order to re-use the Noctua heatsink. Thanks for your suggestions!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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