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The USB/AC97 cables were annoying me so I managed to pass them underneath the motherboard.
These are Harpertown (Yorkfield derived)
I will be limited by the GTX260, especially because of the PCI-E 1.1 8x slot (equivalent to PCI-E 2.0 4x) - My T5400 (which this is replacing) had a PCI-E 2.0 16x slot, but sadly the motherboard in that was faulty, hence this project.
I did some searching though and the difference between 2.0 16x and 1.1 8x is only something like 10% at worst, which would be a lot ordinarily, but for an occasional use retro PC I'm not really bothered. I am more interested in how it looks and whether or not it works properly, which it seems to!
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Dual 4c4t Conroe/wolfdale CPUs (or whatever the Xeon equivalent is) have always intrigued me and considering my 3.3GHz Q6600 is/was borderline playable in a few modernish games a couple of years back I hope you give that PC a workout with a modern GPU trying modern games! Except for missing instruction sets getting in the way!
These are Harpertown (Yorkfield derived)
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I will be limited by the GTX260, especially because of the PCI-E 1.1 8x slot (equivalent to PCI-E 2.0 4x) - My T5400 (which this is replacing) had a PCI-E 2.0 16x slot, but sadly the motherboard in that was faulty, hence this project.
I did some searching though and the difference between 2.0 16x and 1.1 8x is only something like 10% at worst, which would be a lot ordinarily, but for an occasional use retro PC I'm not really bothered. I am more interested in how it looks and whether or not it works properly, which it seems to!