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Salvaged the following hardware from Junk Day... can I reuse it?

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lektrix

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It was junk day today and I salvaged the following from a HP Server - http://h18000.www1.hp.com/products/quickspecs/13235_na/13235_na.html :

(2) Intel E5540
http://ark.intel.com/products/37104...-E5540-(8M-Cache-2_53-GHz-5_86-GTs-Intel-QPI)

and

(4) Micron 4GB DDR3 ECC Registered
http://www.zmaxtech.com/mt36jszf51272pz-1g4f1ab.html

According to Google, the CPUs are compatible with LGA1366 motherboards. Not sure about compatibility with ECC Registered memory. Does anyone know if I should keep or use this stuff? DDR3 is dirt cheap now and the CPUs were MRSP $800 when they came out in 2009...highly doubt they're worth anything now???
 
Damn, your company throws out some pretty recent stuff! Did the server itself work? A G6 is still quite the competent machine. If you were intending to use the machine as a server, it would be fine as-is.

If you want to use it as a desktop/workstation, then yeah you will want a different board and chassis. You should still look at server boards instead of crazy tweaker desktop boards though if you're interested in RDIMM support and value. This ASUS Z8NA-D6C looks fine to me.
 
WaitingForNehalem said:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813188070

If you can make use of 16 threads, get that motherboard and you'd have a beast machine. Otherwise, I'm sure they'd still be worth a lot of money. Sandy bridge isn't that much faster than Nehalem.
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Not sure I'd make real use of that for home computing and gaming... the couple hundred I have to shell out for a motherboard is turning me off!

mfenn said:
Damn, your company throws out some pretty recent stuff! Did the server itself work? A G6 is still quite the competent machine. If you were intending to use the machine as a server, it would be fine as-is.

If you want to use it as a desktop/workstation, then yeah you will want a different board and chassis. You should still look at server boards instead of crazy tweaker desktop boards though if you're interested in RDIMM support and value. This ASUS Z8NA-D6C looks fine to me.
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Yeah I was surprised they threw out all this stuff. Most of the other servers were Pentium 3 crap but this was the king of the cake. Something was wrong with the server though... not sure what.
 
Apparently the server wouldn't turn on.

Anyways, if I'm on a E8500 now.. if I upgrade to LGA1366, I could at the very least use one of the Xeons. Too bad I can't use the RAM unless I spend $300 on a motherboard =(
 
lektrix said:
Apparently the server wouldn't turn on.

Anyways, if I'm on a E8500 now.. if I upgrade to LGA1366, I could at the very least use one of the Xeons. Too bad I can't use the RAM unless I spend $300 on a motherboard =(
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sell the ram and one processor to pay for a regular 1366 board and ram (and an SSD!). regular ram is dirt cheap.
 
ElFenix said:
sell the ram and one processor to pay for a regular 1366 board and ram (and an SSD!). regular ram is dirt cheap.
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Sounds like the best option for me..... how much better is this CPU vs my E8500? Is my E8500 still better for gaming?
 
In single or dual-threaded games, they are probably about equal, with the E8500, being perhaps slightly faster. The Xeon will of course dominate the Core 2 Duo in any game that takes advantage of more than two threads.
 
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