I've thought about having a machine like this as something to put a GOOD graphics card in, that is something that does GPGPU / OpenCL in 64 bit native precision. This is where the action is these days, at least in my neighborhood.<br>
<br>My best thought now on playing with it is to find another working machine and start swapping parts. Yes there is a good chance that the motherboard is blown altogether or it will be soon.<br><br>Smaller case I disagree with as you want the space for air circulation. Some people are putting in multiple gpu boards. The speedups with a GOOD desktop card are on the order of 256 or better. Physics codes running 24/7 for a month are reduced to overnight. This includes image recognition training programs for robotics helps. The robot can learn in its sleep without having to hibernate for a month.<br>
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 3:19 PM, Ronald Cotoni <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:setient@gmail.com">setient@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
FYI what I would do is gank the cpu memory and disk and buy a REAL cheap board and put it into a WAY smaller/quieter case. It is still an OK cpu even by todays standards since it is a quad core. It is still faster than most new laptops today as well (even the i7 ones)<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Mon, Mar 14, 2011 at 1:09 PM, Ken Adler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken.adler@gmail.com" target="_blank">ken.adler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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I have a quad-core server (<a href="http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1014899R/1014899Rsp2.shtml" target="_blank">http://support.gateway.com/s/PC/R/1014899R/1014899Rsp2.shtml</a> upgraded to 4 G RAM) that I am trying to refresh.<div>
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</div><div>I plugged it in and was not able to get any video .</div><div><br></div><div>So I went out and bought a new video card and plugged that in... still no video - tried both VGA and DVI. I confirmed that the monitor is working fine (plugged it into another PC and it worked)</div>
<div><br></div><div>My question is, should I just give up now and resign myself to trashing the PC?</div><div><br></div><div>Alternatively, if I bring it into NoiseBridge (coming in for Pyclass tonight) is there some strategy for troubleshooting/ necessitating the PC without access to video-out initially.</div>
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