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EM64T compatibility
Posted: Thu Jun 01, 2006 9:51 pm
by Kills On Site
Would a Pentium D with EM64T, 64-bit, work with XP Pro the non-64-bit version perfectly? Also is it compatibile with the 945G northbridge?
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:33 am
by AmIdYfReAk
yes, it will work with the 32bit vir...
and i am not sure about the NB support.
edit: what am i talking about?!?!? Look at the mobo's that you are looking at or have and see if it support it!
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 3:41 pm
by Kills On Site
Well I am looking at a Shuttle SD36G5 It says it supports Pentium Ds. Would its power supply, 250 watt, be able to support a 2.8 Pentium D and a 6600 PCI-E. I assume it would, but I have never built one of these little machines and am wondering if anything is different or harder then working on an ATX case.
Posted: Fri Jun 02, 2006 11:26 pm
by axbaby
consider a new PSU .. 350 Watt minimum
you may and most likely will run into problems at 250W
they are not expensive
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 6:41 am
by AmIdYfReAk
350 Min for stability....
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:05 pm
by Kills On Site
What size power supply fits in Shuttles, I assume that a standard ATX would not work, so what size would it be.
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2006 7:59 pm
by axbaby
shuttles use a slimmer design .
google shows many people running newer vid cards on 250W psu .. even shuttle says it can but you will just have to find out for yourself i suppose.
i could not find online a place to purchase seperatly 300W or more PSU's for shuttle.
you can buy 250W psu which apparently are
very very good PSU's.
other psu's mislead you on their specs apparently.
i'll go on a limb and say it will work so long as you don't overuse the psu with too many drives etc
if ya gots the bucks buy a better newer shuttle with a higher rated psu for the future "dual vid cards mobo"
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 7:21 pm
by Kills On Site
Well my sister doesn't exactly do anything too terribly taxing. As long as it can physically survive a college dorm it should be fine I would think. All the reviews are happy with it.
The reason I would go with a video card, save for the fact that I do hate onbaord, is that a 6600 has a DVI port and my sister uses an LCD with both D-Sub and DVI input, however she runs D-Sub and I think that a DVI would be a better picture. Perhaps that would be an upgrade for later.
Does anyone know the exact way that the hard drive fits, she has a parallel hard drive and I have a converter to convert it to SATA and would like to do that since if it were put on a parallel it would share it with the DVD burner.
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 8:51 pm
by Captain
On a GeForce 6600, you'll need at least 400W of power. I suggest a minimum of 450 to make sure it isn't underpowered.
*EDIT* Unless you don't do anything heavy :icon26:
Posted: Sun Jun 04, 2006 9:36 pm
by AmIdYfReAk
Ahhh, Errr.... Mazda.. thats a little high man.. the 6600 GT only draws about 90watts by itsself.
And those Psu's that he is talking about can do ~300 watts without breaking a sweat..
i say he will be fine with that.
if we where talking about Reg ATX PSU's the more the beter
