hummm.... it just struck me that I could probably put the quadcore chips in my other machine which currently have dualcore chips, right? When I get home I will look at the other server to find the model number and look up the specs<div>
<br></div><div>Also, as part of the troubleshooting I bought <a href="http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Galaxy+-+NVIDIA+GeForce+210+DDR2+PCI+Express+Graphics+Card/9539671.p?id=1218121172103&skuId=9539671&st=galaxy%20210&cp=1&lp=2">this graphics card</a> for $60 (with tax and immediate gratification at BestBuy next to my office in emeryville).</div>
<div><br></div><div>seems like you know your way around these things, Brian... is there a better choice in the same price range that I should go for (now that I am not in immediate gratification/troubleshooting mode). Could buy it off the internet or run to frys.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Ken</div><div><br></div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 6:17 PM, Brian Morris <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:cymraegish@gmail.com">cymraegish@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">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.<div>
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<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" target="_blank">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>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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