[Gllug] Cheap dell hardware

Ashley Evans hoshy at hoshy.co.uk
Fri Dec 10 12:39:50 UTC 2004


On Thursday 09 December 2004 21:13, Chris Bell wrote:
> On Thu 09 Dec, Martin A. Brooks wrote:
> > John Winters wrote:
> > > Dell's delivery is a rip-off - they're really quoting artificially low
> > >
> > >prices and then making it back up with the delivery.
> > >
> > >Having said that, is there anything to stop you buying two and moving
> > > the CPU from one into the other?  It would be cheaper than buying the
> > > 2nd CPU.
> >
> > Well, that's what I'm planning to do :)
>
>    I see that there are two standard chipsets to go with the Xeon, the
> workstation 440GX AGP and the 450NX PCI without AGP, so I assume there is
> no AGP slot and it really is not designed for anything other than a server
> box.
>
> --
> Chris Bell

iirc the server has pci-x which would allow for quite a beefy gfx card, should 
you be interested in such things.

Ashley
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