Recycling an old server perhaps?

satanicguardian · 2 May 2013 at 13:00

Hey guys, old server at work may be getting recycled, I can't really turn it on at the moment, but can anyone identify what CPU type/socket this board is and how good it will be as a folding rig if I get a second cpu for it?

Hukkel · 2 May 2013 at 13:10

Seeing the way the heatsinks are fitted and 2nd photo top left it says Inte(l). So it is an Intel dual Xeon setup. But what socket. Aren't there any other texts on the mobo saying what chipset it features?

satanicguardian · 2 May 2013 at 13:10

yeah its definitely xeon, I can't see anything else either

Weazle · 2 May 2013 at 13:44

Get the HP part numbers from those white stickers with the bar code on them (as many as you can find on the motherboard). Do a Google serach and you'll probably get the motherboard and possibly which HP series it belongs to. Then use that info to find any spec sheets.

danewesley · 2 May 2013 at 13:45

1366? tri memory slots?

satanicguardian · 2 May 2013 at 13:52

Im basically just trying to work out if it's viable to obtain a second chip that's on the board and get it crunching away :O

ozaudio · 2 May 2013 at 14:03

remove the heatsink and get the numbers from the cpu? this way you'll know what socket m/b it is

Biffa · 2 May 2013 at 14:52

Definitely 1366
Worth folding on yes
With the right CPU's you might just make the deadline:

Bigadv is a no-no on 2p LGA 1366 unless you

a:- Have a pair of Hex cores running at 2.66 or better - this is the absolute minimum and given the fluctuations in 8101 tpf i would consider 2.8 a safer limit i.e x5660 or better
b:- Have a pair of quad cores on an SR-2 running at ~3.6.

Please note that the SR-2 is the only board that will allow 2p over clocking, all other boards run at stock + turbo

As for regular SMP tpf.

A pair of E5530's will get you about 33k, A pair of L5640's will get you upto 53k and a pair of x5670's will net you about 70k These are all on linux

satanicguardian · 2 May 2013 at 15:51

Biffa said:
Definitely 1366
Worth folding on yes
With the right CPU's you might just make the deadline:

So this will be a massive PPD push over my 2 current rigs crunching?

Biffa · 2 May 2013 at 16:03

Yes but the CPU's aren't cheap.

satanicguardian · 2 May 2013 at 16:16

Biffa said:
Yes but the CPU's aren't cheap.

What kinda ram would I need for this? :O (capacity)

Biffa · 2 May 2013 at 17:41

DDR3 in banks of 3 per CPU, so you could get away with 6 sticks. Not sure what type of server or motherboard it is but its likeley as its a Xeon system that it would need Registered memory which is a little more expensive.

satanicguardian · 3 May 2013 at 10:08

Biffa said:
DDR3 in banks of 3 per CPU, so you could get away with 6 sticks. Not sure what type of server or motherboard it is but its likeley as its a Xeon system that it would need Registered memory which is a little more expensive.

I'm in two minds now, don't know if I should dish out on this or just save and get a nice Ivybridge system and smash some numbers :O

Hukkel · 3 May 2013 at 21:31

How much money are you looking to spend?

Biffa · 4 May 2013 at 09:25

satanicguardian said:
I'm in two minds now, don't know if I should dish out on this or just save and get a nice Ivybridge system and smash some numbers :O

I think you would get more out of the server tbh

joeyjojo · 5 May 2013 at 20:04

satanicguardian said:
What kinda ram would I need for this? :O (capacity)

As for capacity, I'd go with 6x 2GB sticks. Search around for "6x2GB ECC DDR3". 6x 1GB might cut it depending on the number of cores you end up with. Can others confirm?