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Originally Posted by andygoth
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Originally Posted by nobodino
Last week I was given a very old PC, it has only a AMD DX40, it has everything to work, HDD, memory, network card with BNC connector, serial and parallel connectors but the video is out of order. When I power it on, it seems to boot, normal noise. The person who gave it to me, had tested it not that long ago before the graphic card died.
It is a VLB card that is needed, and I've searched here in France but no avalaible. I want to revive that ancestor and install the oldest Slackware distribution I have. Look at the photo to see the types of connectors (ISA 8 bits and ISA 16 bits connectors)
Has anyone that kind of graphic card?
I also got a very old bi-Xeon with 2xE5645 cpu for a bite of bread (100€) with an integrated graphic card AST2050, but with no hdd.I had a spare ssd I put on it.
Despite I can 'make -j 25' to build gcc.SlackBuild (48 mn), it's less powerful than my i7-6700 PC (45 mn).They are on the same network, and bought a cheap KVM switch to use one or the other with only one set of kbd/mouse/screen.
I would like to use the 2 PC (i7-6700 and the bi-Xeon) and with the help of icecream or distcc improve my ability to build Slackware From Scratch, but for the time being no success, help and advice would be welcome!
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As others have already stated Vesa Local Bus.
And you do not have to have a VLB card even in the VLB enabled slots. You can put an ISA card in those slots.
I seem to remember that you could use a VLB card in an ISA only slot too, but then obviously would not get the VLB speedup on things. (I could remember wrong on that part, however.)
The dual E5645 is not a bad setup. Those CPUs where also used in e.g Dell R710 and HP DL380 G7 servers.
It's not long ago those where considered the optimal choice for folks at home wanting to run a server.
These days the generation of servers following the ones mentioned seems to have gotten a better price/performance rating, but I'd still think the older ones can be useful. It's worth nothing that the newer series are somewhat less power hungry, but the power jump is much less than the one between the two previous generations. YMMV as always.
I would think you have DDR3 ECC RAM (rdimm) in that machine? The total amount of RAM, but also the RAM stick sizes, speeds and placements (which stick in which memory slot) will play in on the total system performance. Though sometimes almost any memory configuration will work - even though maybe not optimally (the mentioned HPs I believe where very forgiving that way- think I saw 2 or 3 different memory stick sizes on 5 memory sticks in total divided across two CPUs) to being very specific as to which memory configurations that will be accepted (the mentioned Dell is fairly picky that way). I bet there are others which are a bit more inbetween too. The CPUs have three memory channels each btw.
Thanks
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KarlMag
