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Re: core 2 duo vs dual xeon

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hah yeah one of the first things I checked.. I'd try the bic pen first

I just don't know why someone would take the keys.. it was on the keyring on the back of the tower

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Got the case open just by tugging on the panel.. took all but 20 sec lol

Question how can it be a necona core and have pci-x

Are you able to use cpuz to find out?...

not yet I had to meet up with a person tonight so I was just able to get the case open and check.. I'd have to throw one of my old IDE drives in for now..

Tomorrow or so on the ride home from work I will check it..

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some quick pictures



one thing I'm not sure about it's got some nvida card but I never seen this type of plug before.. looks almost like DVI but way more pins then splits to a two head vga cable.

Dual-output videocard. Originally there are two Y-splittlers, one VGA and one DVI. Pretty common thing in branded high-end workstations.
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Thanks, did not know that.

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I'm guessing that's a Matrox or an Nvidia Quadro of some kind. I've seen both come with those Y-cables. Just IMHO, I wouldn't use an older Xeon Nocona server for anything anymore. Lack of PCI-E expansion, and the slower PCI-X 133 BUS is pretty much inundated compared to cheaper PCI-E RAID solutions. I learned that the hard way when I brought home an older Intel E7250 based server. It was tossed a year later as my cheaper Core 2 based server outpaced it in so many ways.

It could make an inexpensive box for light VM's, as the Nocona supports x86 64-Bit instructions.

must be the Quadro.. first thing that came to my mind was Matrox haven't seen them around since the early 90's but I saw the nvidia name.. I could not get the card out because it had some green tab I could not figure out how to remove on the back side of the card.

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It's called a DMS-59 connector.

ATI, Matrox, and Nvidia all used the connector at some point. Most recently ATI/AMD and Dell use them on their Optiplex line for SFF PC's.

Also, it looks to me like the video card is PCI-e. While the Nocona-based servers mostly lacked PCI-e (although some had it), many of the DP workstations included it for high power (at the time) graphics cards.

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It looks like an NVS 285, which I have seen lots of them in older SUN Opteron based workstations.

you know what it looks just like the card

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Bringing it home tomorrow Can anyone guess how many watts it uses? I have a P4 running in the closet it has been for a few months it was for folding but something got crazy with the network so it's been sitting idle for at least 4 months..

And I take it this server each cpu has 4 cores?

hopefully it can run off the IDE hard drive since it came with 2 SATA samsung drives but I ended up using them.

I can't remember if that single IDE port was for the DVD rom drive..

Ok I take it back I guess it's a single IDE..
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crap forgot to bring home that stupid video cable..

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Nocona's are single core HT based processors, based on the Prescott P4. Seeing that you have two of them, the server would have two physical CPU's (not cores) and two logical CPU's. Each CPU eats 110W.

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HP xw8200 Workstation
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Intel Xeon Processor with 800 MHz Front Side Bus

Intel® Xeon® Processor 2.80 GHz, 4M Cache, 800 MHz FSB
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Instruction Set 64-bit

# of Cores 2
# of Threads 4

Since, there is 2 on that mainboard... total of 4 cores, with HT on, it is total of 8 threads.

You pulled up a Paxville processor, which is a dual-core processor. The Nocona was never a dual-core processor in any way shape or form. This is a Nocona based server, not Paxville.
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I'm going to run out and get the dual video cable..

It has two dual audio cards I forgot the name of it.. but they include RCA, BNC & XLR inputs.