<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 7:43 PM, Ken Adler <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ken.adler@gmail.com">ken.adler@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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" target="_blank">this graphics card</a> for $60 (with tax and immediate gratification at BestBuy next to my office in emeryville).</div>
</blockquote><div><br>A 200 series design is a couple years old or more. You should try and get at least a 400 series. Also, the drivers compatibility situation has reversed from what it was a couple years ago -- support is now better for AMD and worse for NVIDIA. But not that much I think, and I couldn't tell you off the bat which AMD are comparable. The 400 series is not the newest either, they just came out with a laptop mobile a couple few months back, so 500 for desktops would be current. Just a caution sometimes a few labeled as lower end actually the previous. So the 320 used in recent Macbooks is actually 200 series. <br>
<br>Of course it depends on how much you want to spend. I know Apple is putting more and more of everyday computing loads onto the graphics cards, but I don't know how much the other operating systems are yet. If you are into software hacking though it is (to me at least) definitely the thing.<br>
<br>Am disappointed Apple did not put NVIDIA 400 Mobile 64bit GPU in new MacBook Pro. Maybe they opted for speed, and wanted to get away from NVIDIA, who are saying now they are going out of the graphics business even though they won the suit against Intel. <br>
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<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><font color="#888888"><div>Ken</div></font><div><div></div><div class="h5"><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" target="_blank">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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