Going to build a "Server"

[brian]

So Ive been nagging for a server for some time now. Being a college student, my savings are minimal. I was originaly thinking of saving up and buying a nice server board and expanding it over the years. However the initial cost is still too high for me.

When I got back I realised that I may be able to use the motherboard I got around 3 years ago. ( Gigabyte ga-p35-Ds3L) Originally (and still) I have had a Pentium D but as I looked up the specs for the MB I realize I can go up to a core 2 quad.

My question is do you think this setup would run linux with a VM backend with maybe 3-4 VM's running alongside with mythtv?
I was thinking of using
quad q9550 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115041)
8GB PC2 8500 (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104098)
and a 2 TB drive.

I already have a case and power supply and GPU (may end up upgrading the PSU and GPU cause they are cheep and old)

Any suggestions?

 

[bullzi]

I don't think you'd have any issue with that system running that many VM's at once, C2Q should keep up just fine.

One thing I'd suggest right off the bat is to get two 2TB hd's, I see you just said 'a 2TB HD', this way you can run RAID 1 and have some bit of redundancy for the server and any files that may be stored on it.

Other than that, I'm not a crazy huge server guy so that's my only suggestion so far