Dual hexcore Z600's

[zombie67]

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. 👍

[Haunted Forest]

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!!

HF

[zombie67]

If you are talking about a t7500, watch out for the 8 pin, might be for a second cpu riser card. NOT GPU power!!

HF

That is what I thought at first too. But think not for three reasons:

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.

[Mumps]

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.

[zombie67]

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

[MindCrime]

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:

z220 (z230s aren't that much more) =t1600
z420 (heh 420) =t3600
z620 =t5600 (dual sockets start here)
z820 =t7600

[scole of TSBT]

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?

[Bryan]

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?

PM Z Steve, he just bought one.

[MindCrime]

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?

Looks to be correct. T5600 dual socket motherboard, z620 has a single socket mobo + riser card with 2nd cpu socket.