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samcrawford2010
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August 4th, 2007 12:00
SC440 CPU upgrade
Hi guys,
I've got a Dell Poweredge SC440 here running as my home development server. It's a truly brilliant little box for the money. I've got the opportunity to buy another SC440 cheap, and am considering using it as my workstation. I appreciate the video is locked at PCI-e 1x (grrr Dell), but the most graphics intensive thing I ever do is watch videos!
I want to get a decent CPU in there though. A Q6600 (G0) would be the ideal, but I'm not sure if the SC440 would recognise it. Furthermore, I'm a bit concerned that the 305W PSU would struggle to power the Q6600 along with the rest of the components. I read on another forum that the SC440 measures ~85W actual usage with 2 hard drives and a Pentium D chip, so there seems to be headroom?
Any thoughts/advice from anyone?
Thanks,
Sam
I've got a Dell Poweredge SC440 here running as my home development server. It's a truly brilliant little box for the money. I've got the opportunity to buy another SC440 cheap, and am considering using it as my workstation. I appreciate the video is locked at PCI-e 1x (grrr Dell), but the most graphics intensive thing I ever do is watch videos!
I want to get a decent CPU in there though. A Q6600 (G0) would be the ideal, but I'm not sure if the SC440 would recognise it. Furthermore, I'm a bit concerned that the 305W PSU would struggle to power the Q6600 along with the rest of the components. I read on another forum that the SC440 measures ~85W actual usage with 2 hard drives and a Pentium D chip, so there seems to be headroom?
Any thoughts/advice from anyone?
Thanks,
Sam
Mathiau
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Posted September 8th, 2008 14:00
i do have a spare e4400 cpu at home i can try to toss into my other sc440 here at work not doing anything, because if it works.. then that can tell us what the chipset is capable of