Recent content by adamogden24

So I'm upgrading a T5500 from a E5606 to an X5660. Any tips or anything I should know? The current BIOS is on A09. Should I update to A16? I have the aluminium heat sink do I need to change to the copper heat sink or a third party heat sink?

BambiBoom, Thank you for all your help! I just won an auction for a T5500 with a X5677 12GB RAM 640GB a ATI Firepro V5800 all for $112.50 with $25 shipping. I'll probably end up putting a better gpu in there but I feel like I got a pretty good deal and I have a lot of room to upgrade the T5500...

BambiBoom, I am currently trying to decide whether to go with a T3500 or get a T5500 that has more room to grow in the future. Either way I'm planning on replacing the cpu with an X5660 because it seams like the biggest bang for my buck (CPU mark = 7953 for ~$50) and if I get the T5500 I can...

BambiBoom, First off thank you so much for all of the great information! It's helped a lot! Do you know what CPUs are compatible with the t3500s and t5500s? Are all LGA1366 socket CPUs compatible? Thanks, adamogden24

So I've been looking at some older workstations to do 3D modeling/rendering, video editing and coloring on for dirt cheep. I came across a HP Z400 with: CPU: INTEL W3565 3.20GHz RAM: 16GB GPU: NVIDIA Quadro 2000 HDD: 1TB All for $200. I'm wondering how well this workstation would fair with...