My old P670 went pop once and died after several months of erratic behavior. Now I have to fix it, or trash and build a new workstation (no more proprietary machines for me).
The P670 sports a 64-bit Intel Xeon dual-core or single-core processor with 800MHz front side bus and 2MB L2 cache per core, 8 DDR2 400MHz ECC registered memory, according to the specs. The only other things that had any value were the SCSI RAID array, which I would trash anyway and replace with SSD. The graphics card is ancient and not worth keeping.
The only thing I've done is replace the fuse in the power supply to no avail, so I'm looking at either used PS and/or mobo, which can be had for about $150 for both on ebay. So even if I can repair it, how does the dual core Xeon from 2007 stack up to current dual core Xeon products or i7 processors? Is there anything in there that can be used in a new build?
Any help is appreciated -- I'm a very 'value-conscious' person who would generally rather fix things than toss them, as long as the cost-benefit factor makes sense.
Van
The P670 sports a 64-bit Intel Xeon dual-core or single-core processor with 800MHz front side bus and 2MB L2 cache per core, 8 DDR2 400MHz ECC registered memory, according to the specs. The only other things that had any value were the SCSI RAID array, which I would trash anyway and replace with SSD. The graphics card is ancient and not worth keeping.
The only thing I've done is replace the fuse in the power supply to no avail, so I'm looking at either used PS and/or mobo, which can be had for about $150 for both on ebay. So even if I can repair it, how does the dual core Xeon from 2007 stack up to current dual core Xeon products or i7 processors? Is there anything in there that can be used in a new build?
Any help is appreciated -- I'm a very 'value-conscious' person who would generally rather fix things than toss them, as long as the cost-benefit factor makes sense.
Van
parts from old machine are mostly useless for new. The only things you can usually transfer are psu, storage and expansion cards.
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