On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 10:11:07AM -0400, Prentice Bisbal wrote: > Or it could be because they make motherboards that convert 12 VDC to 5 > VDC on the motherboard.
All Itanium and some other x86 boxes take a single 48V input to the mobo. I talked to a mobo designer once and he claimed that there was no power savings to be had doing this. Beats me, mon. -- greg _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf