- Aug 25, 2001
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Well, I have had my quad-GPU F@H rig mothballed for the summer, but it's getting colder, and my heat doesn't seem to function well, so I'm pulling it out again. Watch out.
Anyways, I had planned to run it as a combo WHS box, and run folding on it too. I finally ordered a real copy (formerly only had free 180 day trial copy) of WHS to install. I never tried the trial copy, but I have confidence that F@H GPU will run on it.
The last thing that I did to it was to install 4GB of RAM into it, although it's rather pointless, as with all of those GPUs, I only get 2.25GB of RAM in Windows. But at least it's running in dual-channel.
I also have some 1TB WD Green HDs coming in the mail. The case is an Antec 300, and the OS drive is a WD Caviar Blue 640GB 6400AAKS. The only problem that I forsee, is that there was an issue with some of the SATA ports being covered up by the video cards. I will have to see how many free (and usable) SATA ports I have. I ordered four HDs. I think that the board has six SATA ports, plus two SAS/SATA ports on a Promise controller. I never installed the Promise drivers and have it turned off in the BIOS, for simplicity.
Anyways, I had planned to run it as a combo WHS box, and run folding on it too. I finally ordered a real copy (formerly only had free 180 day trial copy) of WHS to install. I never tried the trial copy, but I have confidence that F@H GPU will run on it.
The last thing that I did to it was to install 4GB of RAM into it, although it's rather pointless, as with all of those GPUs, I only get 2.25GB of RAM in Windows. But at least it's running in dual-channel.
I also have some 1TB WD Green HDs coming in the mail. The case is an Antec 300, and the OS drive is a WD Caviar Blue 640GB 6400AAKS. The only problem that I forsee, is that there was an issue with some of the SATA ports being covered up by the video cards. I will have to see how many free (and usable) SATA ports I have. I ordered four HDs. I think that the board has six SATA ports, plus two SAS/SATA ports on a Promise controller. I never installed the Promise drivers and have it turned off in the BIOS, for simplicity.