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hi

i was wondering how long say a typical unit would take on a quad xeon 700, 2mb l2 cache with 4 gig of ram?

im looking into buying one as my mate has one for sale.

a bad unit takes about a week on my dual piii 1000 so roughly the same?

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this a Dell by any chance ?

just seen a same spec one up for auction in Aussie land for £160.41 :-)

cost a lot in electricity to run...
I'd think you'd be better off with some lower power Conroes

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my mate wants 150 quid for it. He reckons it costs the same to run as a high spec modern PC but I can see why it will use a lot of power with 4 cpus and 6 hdds. Oh yeah, its rackmount. Not sure what make it is yet, finding out soon.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
If you're going to make it FAH-only you could take out four or five of the hard disks and sell them at auction. :)
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would this save a lot of power?

how much extra do you think this would cost than a sempron 2500+ rig I want to replace in electric? The sempron does 180 ppd so the xeon should just do more and yes, it will be just fah on it 24/7.

Im getting tempted to leave it as the electric bill is already crazy. Might upgrade the sempron to a conroe or another x2.

My mate says all three of the PSUs have to be hooked up at once else it won't power up.
 
so is it a Dell then ?


They do run a bit warm tbh, I'm pretty sure a conroe would be faster and use less electricity.


I'd guess you could also sell two of the PSU's too
(not sure though, something tells me you need all 3...)
edit: just saw your post, tis true then, you need all 3...


In fact, buy it and sell for spares, I'm sure you could make something on it...
 
A fast hard disk dissipates about 30W. Tossing out 5 of them would save about 150W. :)

I'm not entirely sure how it would compare to the Sempron. Let me look through Intel's documentation and see the TDP for that Xeon.

EDIT: According to this guy and Wikipedia those should be Cascades cores at 180 nm. Their TDP should be 32W.

At maximum you'd see 4*32W=128W from the processors.

You might be able to make some moey parting it out or at least selling at auction for more than you paid. A C2D would wipe the floor with it in terms of Watts per point.
 
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The Number of PSU's wouldn't affect the total wattage that much anyway surely?

I have a 530W PSU but my PC is only using about 170W most of the time, though it can reach 220W when overclocked. Either way it's not using the full 530W, I'd need a bigger PSU if it needed 530 watts.
 
oceaness said:
The Number of PSU's wouldn't affect the total wattage that much anyway surely?

I have a 530W PSU but my PC is only using about 170W most of the time, though it can reach 220W when overclocked. Either way it's not using the full 530W, I'd need a bigger PSU if it needed 530 watts.
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actually most psu are at max efficiency at 50% so a 450w would be better for you Oceaness. That said it's quite easy to under estimate the power requirments of a pc these days (especially an Oc'ed Intel)
 
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