I have a set of 7 workstations, all vostro 230's and they come with a 300 watt psu. I participate in F@H, and am already running the standard clients on them but would like to do some GPU folding.
The vostros were offered with a PCI-E card as a factory option, and i have verified these have an empty PCI-E slot in them but i dont think the 300 watt PSU will be able to handle a 8800 GT or similar card. Anyone know if these psu's can be easily swapped out with a standard ATX supply? I know the dells used too (around 1996-2000) have a different voltage psu, but they changed to a standard voltage after 2001. Any other quirks, like odd connectors i need to worry about?
The vostros were offered with a PCI-E card as a factory option, and i have verified these have an empty PCI-E slot in them but i dont think the 300 watt PSU will be able to handle a 8800 GT or similar card. Anyone know if these psu's can be easily swapped out with a standard ATX supply? I know the dells used too (around 1996-2000) have a different voltage psu, but they changed to a standard voltage after 2001. Any other quirks, like odd connectors i need to worry about?