Dell Deals...

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 01 Nov 2004, 23:58

Does anyone know any good Dell deals on a PowerEdge 400SC or 420SC server? Ebay won't work because you never know if it is in perfect or not so good condition... I tried FatWallet but I only found Dimension ones... BTW, The deals have to be lower than $300 US... I need help.

It definetly has to have a P4... I don't care if It's 2.0GHz I just want a P4..

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 02 Nov 2004, 01:26

I suggest you need to learn more about comps.. Pentium 4 is just a type. It doesn't make it good.

Drewb99 · Post by **Drewb99** » 02 Nov 2004, 02:21

For a good server, I'd reccomend a Xeon or an Opteron system. What exactly are you serving with the server?

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 02 Nov 2004, 02:40

Why does it have to be Dell? Any computer shop could build you a system that comes under your budget. Or you could buy the parts and build it yourself.

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 02 Nov 2004, 02:44

Letting Stereo build a PC himself is kinda.. Risky.

With his age.

boganbusman · Post by **boganbusman** » 02 Nov 2004, 02:49

Oh yeah I forgot he's only like 10 years old . . . still, there's no point getting a Dell because you are just paying for the name.

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 02 Nov 2004, 03:50

lol... Dells are the cheapest I find... Anyways My friend has one of those and it runs great... And I want a P4 because Celerons suck...
I don't know about Xeon but I see on review that it's very good... :/

Post by **TheStig** » 02 Nov 2004, 05:12

ever heard of AMD???

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 02 Nov 2004, 14:10

Of course! I have one. 810MHz though.

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 02 Nov 2004, 17:49

*still wonders something*

The fastest P4 being sold here runs on 3,4 Ghz. Fastest AMD 64 here on 2,4 Ghz. Does the clockspeed REALLY affects performance?

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 02 Nov 2004, 21:57

AMD is better, but costs alot.

Post by **TheStig** » 02 Nov 2004, 22:43

clock speed isn't as important as it was a few years ago... there are lots more things to it... for example the 64bit on the AMD does wonders

Post by **Bojan** » 02 Nov 2004, 23:12

Heh I agree on there. So far everytime I upgraded the cpu I bought a cpu with twice as fast bus speed as before (200-400-800-1666), but now I bought an amd athlon 64 2800 which has a bus speed of 1.8GHz. That's only 200MHz faster than the athlon I bought over 2 years ago.
Pentiums on the other hand go by bus speed. So a 3GHz P4 is comparable to a 2GHz Athlon 64 (that's why AMD uses XXXX+ naming where the XXXX is comparable to a pentium with that bus speed).

Then there's the celerons and the semprons, both the low budget cpus.
Stereo it's still a better deal on getting a 2500 or 2800 celeron than a 2.0 P4. An even better deal would be a 2500 athlon/sempron.

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 02 Nov 2004, 23:56

No offense, but Celerons suck..

Post by **TheStig** » 03 Nov 2004, 00:13

take some advise from a EXPERT!

might come in handy some day

Stereo · Post by **Stereo** » 03 Nov 2004, 01:27

my dad is an EXPERT... !

PSZeTa · Post by **PSZeTa** » 03 Nov 2004, 02:12

Oh dear lord, please tell us why Celeron sucks.

Post by **TheStig** » 03 Nov 2004, 07:19

but then again if you got a low budget... you can't expect to get the best!
Need to compromise some things...!

but he who am I....