worth folding on?

[mrDMxtreme]

My cousin in the US has a spare Dell Precision WorkStation 490

with the specs:

1 DH261 Card,Graphics,128,NVS,285 ULGA7 1 YH958 Mouse,Universal Serial Bus 2BTN,Lead Free,Entry,Logitech Black 1 DJ310 Palmrest,Keyboard,Plastic Entry,Liteon,Board Lock 1 CJ378 Kit,Speaker,Universal Serial Bus,Nmb,A225,Black,World Wide 1 DJ331 KYBD,104,USB,US,NTRY,LTON,BLK 1 CT602 Card,Multi-Media,Audio,SB0467 Windows Vista OS 1 KD916 Assembly,Cable,AUDIO,10P Front,Precision Workstation 490 2 FP182 Display,Flat Panel Display,19 1908FPT,Black,Dell Americas Organization 1 YN681 Kit,Software,Overpack,WXPPSP2 Compact Diskette W/Documentation,England 4 9F029 Dual In-line Memory Module 512,667M64X72,8,240,1RX8 1 JW351 KIT,DOC/DSK,PDVD,7.0,DVD 1 DC593 INSTR,DEVIATE CHAS L6 TO L5+ 1 UR128 Processor,80556K,Xeon Woodcrest,5130,LGA771,Burn 2 1 5120P Cord,Power,125V,6Feet,SJT, Unshielded 1 XH515 Assembly,Digital Video Disk Drive,16X,Half Height,TSST,05 BLK 1 0C319 Hard Drive,80GB,S2,10K,16MB Unleaded,WD-ODY

so the next time one of us visits should i take it to fold on? i don't know if the ppd will be that good for the power/space/heat etc... (and do any of you know if you can add consumer gpu to this thing, like a 550ti or two to fold?)

 

[dugdiamond]

it does not matter how much PPD a rig makes - it's the contribution that matters

a little PPD is better than no PPD

 

[hmmblah]

That's basically a C2D at 2.0GHz. Should be good for maybe 1000-2000 PPD? As far as adding a GPU goes, you will have to see if there are any PCI power cables. Most Dell computers don't have the extra power so you have to get a card that doesn't require them. Those will be lower power cards. I'd guess too that the machine uses SATA so there won't be any molex connectors, that's rules out any PCI power adapters as well. Crack open the case and have a look.

 

[mrDMxtreme]

as the machine is with me, i can't really just look at it when i want to.

also i looked only and the mobo on those have two cpu sockets, so my question is if i find a "cheap" 150-250 dollar Xeon LGA771, but different from the one on there will it work?

sorry for the english there

what i mean is will two different cpu's that fit the board work ? so that dual core + if i find a quad core?

 

[hmmblah]

as the machine is with me, i can't really just look at it when i want to.

also i looked only and the mobo on those have two cpu sockets, so my question is if i find a "cheap" 150-250 dollar Xeon LGA771, but different from the one on there will it work?

sorry for the english there

what i mean is will two different cpu's that fit the board work ? so that dual core + if i find a quad core?

No, the xeons will have to match.

 

[mrDMxtreme]

darn it, then finding 2 quad cores is gonna be pricier

 

[hmmblah]

darn it, then finding 2 quad cores is gonna be pricier

I'm not even sure if that PC will support quads. I did a quick look and Dell's product page only mentions dual core 5100 or 5300 series Xeon. You'd have to dig further to know for sure though. It may just be a BIOS update to enable quads.

 

[mrDMxtreme]

I'm not even sure if that PC will support quads. I did a quick look and Dell's product page only mentions dual core 5100 or 5300 series Xeon. You'd have to dig further to know for sure though. It may just be a BIOS update to enable quads.

oh, i didn't even look at that. i just saw that it was a LGA771, and so i just looked for lga771 xeons