Folding@Home Weekly Team News - 14th September 2006

[oceaness]

Yeah it does lol.

I love the above case, it's a work of art not something that holds PCB's, metal and fans.

The Xclio Greatpower PSU's seem good at the moment. They range from 550W to 850W.
550W is serious overkill for my old systems but the old PSU's waste so much electricity.
80%+ efficiency, 14cm fan, modular and three 12v rails.
£51.64 Inc VAT
(the 600w and above all come with four 12v rails)

I can't wait for my E6600 to arrive I couldn't imagine having two!

 

[kinnison]

I have two PC's setup to use XP's inbuilt Remote Desktop, so I think I can take the graphics card's out.

Unfortunately, AFAIK, modern PC's simply won't boot up if there's no graphics card in there. If there's one built into the mobo, fine, otherwise you need one. In several of my bare mobos I've used some dead cheap PCI VGA cards I got off ebay for about a couple of quid each.

Kinnison.

 

[oceaness]

There both socket A.

I'll try and see what happens

 

[rich99million]

There both socket A.

I'll try and see what happens

You may be able to set it to ignore the lack of a video card in the bios, though I think generally it's deep routed into the POST sequence to halt (and beep) if no GFX card is found

 

[BillytheImpaler]

You may be able to set it to ignore the lack of a video card in the bios, though I think generally it's deep routed into the POST sequence to halt (and beep) if no GFX card is found

Halt on:> No Errors tends to solve that problem. Any enthusiast mobo should be able to handle it.

 

[oceaness]

Halt on:> No Errors tends to solve that problem. Any enthusiast mobo should be able to handle it.

5 out of 6 of my motherboards can do that

And thats exactly what I was planning on doing.

Look at me I know stuff!