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I have an old HP ProLiant DL360 G4 server, that I was thinking about using for mining.
I wanted to know if it would be possible to use as is (stock).
Hardware specs are:
2x intel xeon 3400dp/2m/800/sl7zd
4GB Ram
Hp 128Mb Battery Backed Write Cache
2x 72.8GB 15000RPM Wide Ultra SCSI
???
not sure what else is in there
currently installed OS is Windows Server 2003

Could anyone let me know if i would need some different hardware installed into it or might it work as is?

Id be interested in an answer to this myself, I've an old pentium 4 desktop I could use.

Could you?  Yes.
Should you?  Not in this lifetime, CPU mining has been dead for a long time now, it is too slow to even bother (in SHA256 you will never earn enough to even pay the transaction fee to spend what tiny fraction of a coin you mine in your lifetime).

Maybe some ALT, but Bitcoin, hell no.  ;D

Forget about this crazy idea! the best thing you can do is to get away from the old server

sell me your server plz!
Ofc you can mine with cpu, you just need to know what and when.

My Opinion
Never ever mine using teh CPU
I tried myself last year (back around when the diff is 0.9T instead of 6.9T today)
Using 4 quad-core Xeon CPU gets me only 40MH/s
and the profit is 0.00000300 BTC/day

CPU Mining is highly NOT recommended

Either for fun or for a living.

In my opinion, you can use any PC for mining, but it will not profitable, if you want mine bit coin, it's mission impossible.

That computer will do fine.  Just plug in your ASIC and hash away.

Maybe for cpu only mining

i have the same question too
i have a PC, Dell, I bought it in 2008. it is vostro 1400.
can i use it to mining?

As CPU and GPU are not profitable, it is not recommended

I tried the same thing when I first started.  Complete FAIL.

I have a friend working in a financial institution having access in more than 10 IBM blade servers.He runs there since Nov 2013 cpuminer later in 2014 when it became available to mine LTC and sell them for BTC he changed this now he is almost running all his machines with  multipools but IMPORTANT he has not paid for them he DOES not pay electricity to run them so the fact is that he received as at today with 100Khs about 5 USD per week free.
Who can say I dont want them ????

It would have been a huge success if you started in 2009 lol. :D

So your friend is risking his job and stealing from his employer for $20/month.  You should probably look for better friends than idiotic thieves.

I would suggest using the lowest power PC you can find just to run the client software (e.g. BFGminer or CGminer). I am using a Gateway laptop that's been set to the lowest power setting in Windows and it uses approx 8 Watts of power according to my Kill-a-Watt meter. But I have two USB hubs attached to 12 AntMiner U2's running at a total of 24GH/s. The total power for the entire system is under 40 Watts. 
Any desktop PC is likely to use at least 80 Watts and CPU mining will produce less than 100MH/s (that's 240x SLOWER than my system running at 40 Watts).

Thanks for your suggestion I admire your job and the honest reply.
I must say I do not always aproove my friends actions and further I am not responsible for them
I run my miners at my personal bussiness and my home
Member of BTC-guild as well and thanks for your good efforts and job,  since we met here.
regards

Getting a miner is still better(and less stress for cpu) than using the cpu to mine. why don't just recommend your friend to get one? a 200kh/s is not that expensice already nowadays

Yes but please don't.. its just not worth at all..

yes and no, depend from what you looking for. for fun only or to be serious miner.  ;)

Just user the server as a server. It'll always be good for that.

Optionally, use is as a desktop.

Go ahead, plug in your server and mine away. Every little bit helps to strengthen the bitcoin blockchain. Don't worry about the money, easy come, easy go.

if you really must mine something,  buy a u2 antminer for ~20 and plug it into that server. you'll still lose money on electricity and hardware cost, but you'll have way more hashing power :D

+1.
If anyone want to try mining for fun, you could just buy a USB miner, and have fun solo-mining. :D

Step away from the crackpipe. Bitcoin mining years ago with cpu is ok, not today.

Definitely you could use it..but you can only mine on CPU as GPU very out-dated. CPU miners now are BitMonero, FantomCoin (which support Merged mining-you can mine ByteCoin+FantomCoin for example)..  ;)

Yes you could. But the least powerful category of bitcoin mining hardware is using CPU. Theoretically, you could use your computer’s CPU to mine for bitcoins, but in practice, this is so slow by today’s standards that there isn’t any point.Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) are specifically designed to do just one thing: mine bitcoins at mind-crushing speeds, with relatively low power consumption. So think about it.

You can use anything you want for mining but it will never bring you any result

I want to use the CPU excavation should be. But it's hard to get electricity.

Yes you could. But won't be able to make profit.
I think it would be better to join a pool to start mining.