Yep. Heavy as a hippo! But I like it. Very quiet! Plenty of room for a 7970. Two six pin connectors, but only one 8 pin. So a 2nd gpu would be a problem. But no plans for two. 👍
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Yep. Heavy as a hippo! But I like it. Very quiet! Plenty of room for a 7970. Two six pin connectors, but only one 8 pin. So a 2nd gpu would be a problem. But no plans for two. 👍
If you are talking about a t7500, watch out for the 8 pin, might be for a second cpu riser card. NOT GPU power!!Quote:
Originally Posted by zombie67
HF
That is what I thought at first too. But think not for three reasons:Quote:
Originally Posted by Haunted Forest
1) What would it be used for? There is no second CPU power connector on the mobo. Seems odd that Dell would have a custom PSU with a CPU connector that is unusable. This is Dell, after all.
2) I believe the plastic connector molding keying is slightly different, so that you cannot connect an 8-pin CPU to an 8-pin PCIe. I don't have any laying around to verify.
3) The GPU is running fine now. Surely it would have shorted out, assuming it would run at all, if it was a CPU connector.
Anyway, I am not going to sweat it so long as it keeps working. :)
You are correct zombie67, the keying on the CPU 8-pin is indeed different than that of a PCIe 8-pin, so you can't plug one in to the other by mistake.
The next gen of referbs are offered by the same company. T5600 and T7600. Just about the same price, but with better (Sandy Bridge) 8 core CPUs. I just bought this:
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precisi...wAAOSw8gVX5XL2
And on the HP side of the game you're looking at the following models for the next gen of refurbs:Quote:
Originally Posted by zombie67
z220 (z230s aren't that much more) =t1600
z420 (heh 420) =t3600
z620 =t5600 (dual sockets start here)
z820 =t7600
Does anyone have a T5600 or Z620 that could offer any advice or FYI about them? One thing I noticed is on the Z600, a 2nd CPU only required another heatsink/fan while the T5500 required a riser card. Now the Z620 requires a riser for a 2nd CPU but the T5600 doesn't. Am I seeing that correctly?
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Originally Posted by scole of TSBT
PM Z Steve, he just bought one.
Looks to be correct. T5600 dual socket motherboard, z620 has a single socket mobo + riser card with 2nd cpu socket.Quote:
Originally Posted by scole of TSBT