Anyone replaced a Dell Poweredge motherboard?

[DanielUK]

Hi,

We're moving our mail server from hosted to inhouse. The software we are looking at, Gordano, can be run on a Pentium 450 with 512 megs of ram.

It just so happens that I have a 450 Dual Pentium Dell Poweredge 1300 with 756 megs of ram sitting around doing nothing. This is near minimum spec so I'm wondering if I can put another more recent motherboard in it, Dell or other make. Anyone done this before?

Dan

 

[PaulGillespie]

Nothing to stop you from doing that but by the time you factor in new motherboard, processor(s), RAM and maybe powersupply (Dells are sometimes specific) you pretty much have a new server. Then you may have issues with disks as now the standard is SAS/SATA, the PE1300 takes SCSI or IDE.

Then you have no warrenty/support if it goes wrong. Why not buy a new cheap dell server to suit your requirements?