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?

satanicguardian · 2 May 2013 at 13:10

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

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

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?

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)

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