I have just been given an old PC.
It weighs a fair bit, its got a fairly standard full sized case, its grey and its rock solid so obviously steel.
I opened it up and there is 2 coolers in there, so clearly dual CPU which made me giggle.
No ram, but DDR2 and so I had a look around and I filled up the 4 slots and its got 4GB in there now, started it up and sure enough, she came on... Took long enough to do it, but I went into the BIOS to be nosey like you do, and its a fairly basic and might I say bare affair, I saw among teh options Hyperthreading disabled and a quick go, let me enable it, so good... teh CPUs may be HyperThreading and sure enough they did indeed turn out to be so.
Its got a Windows 7 Serial on the side of teh case and so I went with that of course... Annoyed that it would not seem to boot from USB however it certainly seemed to have plenty of bits and bobs for doing all kinds of silly stuff with networking that I have not seen before in a BIOS, and it took incredibly long time to install, but its all gone it and it seems to be workign just fine.
I have not had a proper look at the board, I dont know if its ATX and I hope it is, because even though the case is lovely, the PSU looks a very non standard massive thing thats wont be nice to replace, and in spite of the board clearly being a Server, the case can only fit 2 Hard Disks and one DVD Drive in.
I didnt get the details of the CPU now, but If I remember its a Dual Xeon 3.2Ghz and the letters/numbers hpw6200 or hpx6200 showed up.
Still... 3.2Ghz isnt a bad speed for a free PC and dual CPU and HyperThreading I think I am happy with it and so I am going to have a good play over the next few days with my new toy.
It weighs a fair bit, its got a fairly standard full sized case, its grey and its rock solid so obviously steel.
I opened it up and there is 2 coolers in there, so clearly dual CPU which made me giggle.
No ram, but DDR2 and so I had a look around and I filled up the 4 slots and its got 4GB in there now, started it up and sure enough, she came on... Took long enough to do it, but I went into the BIOS to be nosey like you do, and its a fairly basic and might I say bare affair, I saw among teh options Hyperthreading disabled and a quick go, let me enable it, so good... teh CPUs may be HyperThreading and sure enough they did indeed turn out to be so.
Its got a Windows 7 Serial on the side of teh case and so I went with that of course... Annoyed that it would not seem to boot from USB however it certainly seemed to have plenty of bits and bobs for doing all kinds of silly stuff with networking that I have not seen before in a BIOS, and it took incredibly long time to install, but its all gone it and it seems to be workign just fine.
I have not had a proper look at the board, I dont know if its ATX and I hope it is, because even though the case is lovely, the PSU looks a very non standard massive thing thats wont be nice to replace, and in spite of the board clearly being a Server, the case can only fit 2 Hard Disks and one DVD Drive in.
I didnt get the details of the CPU now, but If I remember its a Dual Xeon 3.2Ghz and the letters/numbers hpw6200 or hpx6200 showed up.
Still... 3.2Ghz isnt a bad speed for a free PC and dual CPU and HyperThreading I think I am happy with it and so I am going to have a good play over the next few days with my new toy.
