Hi all,

We (3 friends) where looking for upgrading our NAS station (DS207+ and DS209II+) to a new NAS station (qnap) and then
i saw WHS and this forum

So we are now looking into building our own WHS server, but we need some help with our choise of CPU

1. How are we going to use the WHS server ?
A. We are using it for our complete media library (Music / Movies and Photo's) streaming to our Popcorn C200

2. We are using SABNZBD that wil unrar and par(if needed) and we all got a 120Mbps Internet line so can we use a Intel Atom Dual Core cpu or do we need a i3 CPU for this kind of apps, because we want to use our full 120mps line and some speed for unrar and par.

What do you guys recommend for the CPU (mostly important is sabnzbd speed (downloading and unrarring) and streaming to our Popcorn C200) ?

I hope you guys can give some advice before we are buying all the products

Thank you.

Ok guys, we couldn't wait any longer so we bought the following hardware (tommorow we are going to build it)

ASUS P7H55D-M PRO Desktop Motherboard - Intel Chipset Micro ATX - Socket H LGA-1156 - 16 GB DDR3 SDRAM - Ultra ATA/133(ATA-7) - Serial ATA/300 - 7.1 Channel Audio

CORE I3-540 3.06GHZ SKT1156 2.5GT/S 4MB CACHE BOXED

4GB DDR3 1333MHZ NON-ECC CL9 DIMM

2 x Western Digital Caviar Green WD15EARS 1.50 TB - Internal - Hard Drive - OEM Serial ATA/300 - Serial ATA - 3.5"

Antec NSK1380 Black/ Silver Steel MicroATX Cube Computer Case 350W Power Supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6811129038

Hope it will be working

That should make a fine WHS Server.
I'm not familiar with your other process.
Ya may want to hit up DBone in the Media stream forum I think he may use PopCorn or at least have some experience with it.

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Current DIY server DL380 G6 2xquad core 2.8ghz 32GB rdimm ram 512mb 2xHP 410 raid with 2x sas expanders (2 X norco RPC-4220) 48 slots stacked with room to grow.
30TB (Movie/File/Music)Win 2012 essentials 64bit Storage spaces
Ex490 E6400 4gb ram

Today we recieved all the products. Tommorow we are going to build it. Pictures will follow

I look forward to seeing your build!

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Alex Kuretz
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